Let me give you a couple of things that might help you and then I’ll give you a full working example that you should be able to customize.
The first thing is that the PdfPTable has a special method called WriteSelectedRows() that allows you to draw a table at an exact x,y coordinate. It has six overloads but the most commonly used one is probably:
PdfPTable.WriteSelectedRows(int rowStart,int rowEnd, float xPos, float yPos, PdfContentByte canvas)
To place a table with the upper left corner positioned at 400,400 you would call:
t.WriteSelectedRows(0, t.Rows.Count, 400, 400, writer.DirectContent);
Before calling this method you are required to set the table’s width using SetTotalWidth() first:
//Set these to your absolute column width(s), whatever they are.
t.SetTotalWidth(new float[] { 200, 300 });
The second thing is that the height of the table isn’t known until the entire table is rendered. This means that you can’t know exactly where to place a table so that it truly is at the bottom. The solution to this is to render the table to a temporary document first and then calculate the height. Below is a method that I use to do this:
public static float CalculatePdfPTableHeight(PdfPTable table)
{
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
using (Document doc = new Document(PageSize.TABLOID))
{
using (PdfWriter w = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms))
{
doc.Open();
table.WriteSelectedRows(0, table.Rows.Count, 0, 0, w.DirectContent);
doc.Close();
return table.TotalHeight;
}
}
}
}
This can be called like this:
PdfPTable t = new PdfPTable(2);
//In order to use WriteSelectedRows you need to set the width of the table
t.SetTotalWidth(new float[] { 200, 300 });
t.AddCell("Hello");
t.AddCell("World");
t.AddCell("Test");
t.AddCell("Test");
float tableHeight = CalculatePdfPTableHeight(t);
So with all of that here’s a full working WinForms example targetting iTextSharp 5.1.1.0 (I know you said 5.1.2 but this should work just the same). This sample looks for all JPEGs in a folder on the desktop called “Test”. It then adds them to an 8.5″x11″ PDF. Then on the last page of the PDF, or if there’s only 1 JPEG to start with on the only page, it expands the height of the PDF by however tall the table that we’re adding is and then places the table at the bottom left corner. See the comments in the code itself for further explanation.
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using iTextSharp.text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
using System.IO;
namespace Full_Profile1
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
public static float CalculatePdfPTableHeight(PdfPTable table)
{
//Create a temporary PDF to calculate the height
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
using (Document doc = new Document(PageSize.TABLOID))
{
using (PdfWriter w = PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, ms))
{
doc.Open();
table.WriteSelectedRows(0, table.Rows.Count, 0, 0, w.DirectContent);
doc.Close();
return table.TotalHeight;
}
}
}
}
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//Create our table
PdfPTable t = new PdfPTable(2);
//In order to use WriteSelectedRows you need to set the width of the table
t.SetTotalWidth(new float[] { 200, 300 });
t.AddCell("Hello");
t.AddCell("World");
t.AddCell("Test");
t.AddCell("Test");
//Calculate true height of the table so we can position it at the document's bottom
float tableHeight = CalculatePdfPTableHeight(t);
//Folder that we are working in
string workingFolder = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "Test");
//PDF that we are creating
string outputFile = Path.Combine(workingFolder, "Output.pdf");
//Get an array of all JPEGs in the folder
String[] AllImages = Directory.GetFiles(workingFolder, "*.jpg", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
//Standard iTextSharp PDF init
using (FileStream fs = new FileStream(outputFile, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.None))
{
using (Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER))
{
using (PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, fs))
{
//Open our document for writing
document.Open();
//We do not want any margins in the document probably
document.SetMargins(0, 0, 0, 0);
//Declare here, init in loop below
iTextSharp.text.Image pageImage;
//Loop through each image
for (int i = 0; i < AllImages.Length; i++)
{
//If we only have one image or we are on the second to last one
if ((AllImages.Length == 1) | (i == (AllImages.Length - 1)))
{
//Increase the size of the page by the height of the table
document.SetPageSize(new iTextSharp.text.Rectangle(0, 0, document.PageSize.Width, document.PageSize.Height + tableHeight));
}
//Add a new page to the PDF
document.NewPage();
//Create our image instance
pageImage = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(AllImages[i]);
pageImage.ScaleToFit(document.PageSize.Width, document.PageSize.Height);
pageImage.Alignment = iTextSharp.text.Image.ALIGN_TOP | iTextSharp.text.Image.ALIGN_CENTER;
document.Add(pageImage);
//If we only have one image or we are on the second to last one
if ((AllImages.Length == 1) | (i == (AllImages.Length - 1)))
{
//Draw the table to the bottom left corner of the document
t.WriteSelectedRows(0, t.Rows.Count, 0, tableHeight, writer.DirectContent);
}
}
//Close document for writing
document.Close();
}
}
}
this.Close();
}
}
}
EDIT
Below is an edit based on your comments. I’m only posting the contents of the for loop which is the only part that changed. When calling ScaleToFit you just need to take tableHeight into account.
//Loop through each image
for (int i = 0; i < AllImages.Length; i++)
{
//Add a new page to the PDF
document.NewPage();
//Create our image instance
pageImage = iTextSharp.text.Image.GetInstance(AllImages[i]);
//If we only have one image or we are on the second to last one
if ((AllImages.Length == 1) | (i == (AllImages.Length - 1)))
{
//Scale based on the height of document minus the table height
pageImage.ScaleToFit(document.PageSize.Width, document.PageSize.Height - tableHeight);
}
else
{
//Scale normally
pageImage.ScaleToFit(document.PageSize.Width, document.PageSize.Height);
}
pageImage.Alignment = iTextSharp.text.Image.ALIGN_TOP | iTextSharp.text.Image.ALIGN_CENTER;
document.Add(pageImage);
//If we only have one image or we are on the second to last one
if ((AllImages.Length == 1) | (i == (AllImages.Length - 1)))
{
//Draw the table to the bottom left corner of the document
t.WriteSelectedRows(0, t.Rows.Count, 0, tableHeight, writer.DirectContent);
}
}