Create custom PDF Grid, setting the column width / size

Marcel Ruiter posted over 9 years ago

I create a custom Grid that contains 14 columns.
I want all the to set the column width to the max size of the IText of the column, except for the second column.
I played around with the AutoWidth.Instance, but can't make ik work.
Some text is not shown properly.

The source code Optionsis attached

Please help me!

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Offline Zdravko Kolev posted over 9 years ago

Hello Marcel,

Thank you for the provided code snippet and explanation.

If you set the text width to be with AutoWidth.Instance, the columns will be properly resized. See the attached image.

Could you please let me know what I am missing from your scenario.
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Marcel Ruiter posted over 9 years ago in reply to Zdravko Kolev

Hello Zdravko,

I can reproduce what you sent to me.
But what I want is this (see image)...

I want to set the column with to the max textsize of the cell except for column 2.
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Offline Zdravko Kolev posted over 9 years ago in reply to Marcel Ruiter
Hello Marcel,

Thank you for the clarifications.

The AutoWidth functionality is leaving this extra space when its used by design. If you want you can set a fixed with which can be calculated based on the cell value. Below you can find a method which is returning width value based on the text and font:

public static float TextWidth(string text, System.Drawing.Font f)

{

    float textWidth = 0;

    using (Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(1, 1))

    using (System.Drawing.Graphics g = System.Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(bmp))

    {

        textWidth = g.MeasureString(text, f).Width;

    }

    return textWidth;

}

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col.Width = new FixedWidth(TextWidth("22-155", new System.Drawing.Font("Arial", 12)));

Although this is not recommended approach because the values within the column could be different and change its text length.

Keep in mind that if you use the fixed width, again a little extra space will be added.

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Marcel Ruiter posted over 9 years ago in reply to Zdravko Kolev

Thx for your answer.

I can calculate the maximum width of the cells, before drawing the grid.
Maybe that would be a solution?

I'm going to try this and let you know if it works or not and also bring my ideas to the Product Ideas site.

Marcel
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Offline Zdravko Kolev posted over 9 years ago in reply to Marcel Ruiter

Okay,

Thank you for letting me know about this. Yes, you can try this, if you will set the columns width based on the content.
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