How to display image and text beside each other Itext

Question

Hi I am trying to create an Invoice where the company logo and the address are displayed next to each other. The company logo is displayed on the left and the text beneath i

Answer 1

In my case, I was working in existing functionality and had to do so with in a cell. So here is what I did

public PdfPCell buildDesiredCell() throws Exception {

PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();

PdfPTable headerTable = new PdfPTable(2);
headerTable.setWidthPercentage(100f);

PdfPCell leftCell = new PdfPCell();
String imagePath; 
imagePath = D:\....;//specify any path

Image img = Image.getInstance(imagePath); 

img.scaleAbsoluteHeight(120f);
img.scaleAbsoluteWidth(120f);
img.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
leftCell.addElement(img);
leftCell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);

headerTable.addCell(leftCell);

PdfPCell rightCell = new PdfPCell();
Paragraph addText= new Paragraph("  This is required text", smallStandardFont);
rightCell .addElement(addText);

rightCell .setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
rightCell .setPaddingLeft(5);
headerTable.addCell(rightCell);

cell.setBorder(Rectangle.NO_BORDER);
cell.addElement(headerTable);

return cell;


}