/** * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23374557/itextsharp-why-cell-background-image-is-rotated-90-degress-clockwise */ package sandbox.tables; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.ExceptionConverter; import com.itextpdf.text.Image; import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle; 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.PdfPatternPainter; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class TiledBackground { class TiledImageBackground implements PdfPCellEvent { protected Image image; public TiledImageBackground(Image image) { this.image = image; } public void cellLayout(PdfPCell cell, Rectangle position, PdfContentByte[] canvases) { try { PdfContentByte cb = canvases[PdfPTable.BACKGROUNDCANVAS]; PdfPatternPainter patternPainter = cb.createPattern(image.getScaledWidth(), image.getScaledHeight()); image.setAbsolutePosition(0, 0); patternPainter.addImage(image); cb.saveState(); cb.setPatternFill(patternPainter); cb.rectangle(position.getLeft(), position.getBottom(), position.getWidth(), position.getHeight()); cb.fill(); cb.restoreState(); } catch (DocumentException e) { throw new ExceptionConverter(e); } } } public static final String DEST = "results/tables/tiled_pattern.pdf"; public static final String IMG1 = "resources/images/ALxRF.png"; public static final String IMG2 = "resources/images/bulb.gif"; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new TiledBackground().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(2); PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(); Image image = Image.getInstance(IMG1); cell.setCellEvent(new TiledImageBackground(image)); cell.setFixedHeight(770); table.addCell(cell); cell = new PdfPCell(); image = Image.getInstance(IMG2); cell.setCellEvent(new TiledImageBackground(image)); cell.setFixedHeight(770); table.addCell(cell); document.add(table); document.close(); } }