[iText-questions] Table Columns Heights different with Constructors versus Add Methods

[rveach]

I couldn't find a bug tracking maillist, so I am posting this here. If there
is a better place for it, let me know. Thanks.

I was messing around with PDF tables when I ran into an issue I couldn't
reproduce on a smaller version pdf.
I narrowed down the issue to how I am creating the cells and the contents
inside the cell and will provide a breif code example of the issue.
The objects and order of creation are the same for both methods, the
differences come from using the constructors versus the add methods.
The add methods seem to create an extra line of blank space in the cell not
seen when you use the constructors directly. This seems like a bug to me
since I am not adding any extra data/attributes to the cell to make it
display differently.

I am using Java with iText version 5.5.4.

<code>
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import com.itextpdf.text.BaseColor;
import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.Font;
import com.itextpdf.text.Font.FontFamily;
import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.Phrase;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class TestPdf {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
final Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER.rotate(), 21, 21,
30, 35);
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("test.pdf"));

document.open();

final Font font = new Font(FontFamily.HELVETICA, //
12.0f * 0.75f,//
Font.BOLD, //
BaseColor.BLACK);

// method 1
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);

table.getDefaultCell().setBorderColor(BaseColor.BLACK);
table.getDefaultCell().setBorderWidth(1);
table.setWidthPercentage(100);

Phrase phrase = new Phrase();

phrase.add(new Chunk("Method 1", font));

PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(table.getDefaultCell());

cell.addElement(phrase);

table.addCell(cell);

document.add(table);

// method 2
PdfPTable table2 = new PdfPTable(1);

table2.getDefaultCell().setBorderColor(BaseColor.BLACK);
table2.getDefaultCell().setBorderWidth(1);
table2.setWidthPercentage(100);

table2.addCell(new Phrase(new Chunk("Method 2", font)));

document.add(table2);

document.close();
}
}
</code>

Which produces the 2 tables:
***********************
* *
* Method 1 *
***********************
* Method 2 *
***********************



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Post by rveach
I couldn't find a bug tracking maillist, so I am posting this here.

Well, we usually expect questions to be posted on StackOverflow.
The best questions are bundled in a free ebook conveniently called "The
Best iText Questions on StackOverflow": https://leanpub.com/itext_so

What you call a bug is nothing more than the difference between
"composite mode" and "text mode" as explained in one of the questions in
the section about tables.

This was the original question on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13607970/right-aligning-text-in-pdfpcell

When you use the addElement() method, you use composite mode and the
extra space is caused by the leading.

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