Unable to vertically align text in table cell with itextsharp

Question

I can not figure out how to vertically align text in table cell. horizontal alignment is ok. I use itextsharp to generate pdf. Alignment should be applied to cells in table

Answer 1

It seems Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE only works, when the cell height is large i.r.t the text height. In a PDF, margins for text in cells are large by default, see iText developers

You could append a \n and a space to your string to solve this, but the cell height will become much larger.

For normal text, one way to lift text in a chunk a few pixels is:

 myChunk.SetTextRise(value);

Only drawback: when the text is underlined (like a link) it only raises the text ! not the underline..

The following seems to work for underlined text also,

 myCell.PaddingBottom = value;

The idea was to put a link in a table cell.. blue font, underlined, vertical centering. My code now:

 iTextSharp.text.Font linksFont =
    FontFactory.GetFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 
             10, Font.UNDERLINE, BaseColor.BLUE);
 PdfPTable myTable = new PdfPTable(1);                   
 Chunk pt = new Chunk("Go Google Dutch", linksFont);
 pt.SetAnchor(new Uri("https://www.google.nl"));
 Phrase ph1 = new Phrase(pt);
 PdfPCell cellP = new PdfPCell();
 cellP.PaddingBottom = linksFont.CalculatedSize/2;
 cellP.AddElement(ph1);
 myTable.AddCell(cellP);