[RESOLVED] Centre Paragraph Text using ItextSharp

[toecutter]

I have been trying to centre text unsuccessfully for 2 days now so unfortunately i now need help from the pros.

I am using below example found in a youtube video to create a pdf file with text and image for a report app i am working on.

I can centre a image but no luck with cantering text horizontally in a pdf document.

I am thinking i may have to place text in a rectangle then possibly centre but not sure so thought i would ask here first.

ps, i am aware library is redundant but itext7 looks so confusing.

Any help or example much appreciated, thankyou

        Dim pdfDoc As New iTextSharp.text.Document
        Dim Sstring As String = DdirName
        Dim DirToSavePdfTo As String = My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.MyDocuments & "\weights"
        Dim DIR_String As String = DirToSavePdfTo & "\" & Sstring & "\" & Sstring & " Weight Report.pdf"
        Dim pdfWrite As PdfWriter = PdfWriter.GetInstance(pdfDoc, New FileStream(DIR_String, FileMode.Create))
        pdfDoc.Open()
        pdfDoc.Add(New iTextSharp.text.Paragraph("Some text"))
        pdfDoc.Add(New iTextSharp.text.Paragraph(" "))
        'date and time
        Dim t As Date = DateTime.Now.ToString()
        pdfDoc.Add(New iTextSharp.text.Paragraph(t))
        pdfDoc.Add(New iTextSharp.text.Paragraph(" "))
        Dim RreportName As String = "Vehicle rego " & TxtVehicleRego.Text & " Van rego " & TxtVanRego.Text & " Report.pdf"
        pdfDoc.Add(New iTextSharp.text.Paragraph(RreportName))
        pdfDoc.Add(New iTextSharp.text.Paragraph(" "))

[jdelano]

I used a Paragraph object

Dim pdfParagraph As iTextSharp.text.Paragraph

and then set the alignment of that object , have you tried this approach?

        pdfDoc.Open()

        pdfParagraph = New iTextSharp.text.Paragraph
        pdfParagraph.Alignment = 1
        pdfParagraph.Add("Some Text")

        pdfDoc.Add(pdfParagraph)

        pdfParagraph = Nothing

        pdfDoc.Close()
        pdfDoc.Dispose()

[toecutter]

excellent, thankyou

[jdelano]

You're welcome, happy to help.