/** * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24162974/how-to-set-background-image-in-pdfpcell-in-itext */ package sandbox.tables; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.ExceptionConverter; import com.itextpdf.text.Font; import com.itextpdf.text.Font.FontFamily; import com.itextpdf.text.Image; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.GrayColor; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCellEvent; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class ImageBackground { class ImageBackgroundEvent implements PdfPCellEvent { protected Image image; public ImageBackgroundEvent(Image image) { this.image = image; } public void cellLayout(PdfPCell cell, Rectangle position, PdfContentByte[] canvases) { try { PdfContentByte cb = canvases[PdfPTable.BACKGROUNDCANVAS]; image.scaleAbsolute(position); image.setAbsolutePosition(position.getLeft(), position.getBottom()); cb.addImage(image); } catch (DocumentException e) { throw new ExceptionConverter(e); } } } public static final String DEST = "results/tables/imagebackground.pdf"; public static final String IMG1 = "resources/images/bruno.jpg"; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new ImageBackground().createPdf(DEST); } public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException { Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest)); document.open(); PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1); table.setTotalWidth(400); table.setLockedWidth(true); PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(); Font font = new Font(FontFamily.HELVETICA, 12, Font.NORMAL, GrayColor.GRAYWHITE); Paragraph p = new Paragraph("A cell with an image as background color.", font); cell.addElement(p); Image image = Image.getInstance(IMG1); cell.setCellEvent(new ImageBackgroundEvent(image)); cell.setFixedHeight(600 * image.getScaledHeight() / image.getScaledWidth()); table.addCell(cell); document.add(table); document.close(); } }