I resolved my problem by setting the text rise for other columns in the
table. I was not aware the text rise was being set in the utility class
which returned cells, and I changed the default text rise value there.
Thanks



>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [iText-questions] help creating checkbox
>From: David McDivitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:54:14 -0600
>
>I need help creating a checkbox. I do not want a field, but a rectangle with
>an X is checked, nothing if not checked. What I have below works.
>Unfortunately, when the PDF is rendered the checkboxes are slightly below
>adjoining text. I wrote a method that returns a cell, which has the checkbox
>in it. The calling program adds that cell to a table. I want the cell which
>is added to the final table in the calling program, to be slightly higher,
>so it is aligned with text in adjacent cells. Thanks
>
>Cell column2 = p.checkBox(false);
>Cell column3 = p.checkBox(false);
>Cell column4 = p.checkBox(false);
>Cell column5 = p.checkBox(false);
>table = p.table(6,new int[] {7,7,7,7,7,65});
>it = posting.iterator();
>while (it.hasNext()) {
>    post = (Post) it.next();
>    isContact = false;
>    if (post.getTranCode().equals("N01")) {
>        isContact = true;
>        column2 = p.checkBox(true);
>    }
>    if (post.getTranCode().equals("N02")) {
>        isContact = true;
>        column3 = p.checkBox(true);
>    }
>    if (post.getTranCode().equals("N03")) {
>        isContact = true;
>        column4 = p.checkBox(true);
>    }
>    if (post.getTranCode().equals("N04")) {
>        isContact = true;
>        column5 = p.checkBox(true);
>    }
>    if (isContact) {
>
>table.addCell(p.cellDefault(ToolsMisc.shortDate(post.getEffectiveDate()),Cell.ALIGN_LEFT,0));
>        table.addCell(column2);
>        table.addCell(column3);
>        table.addCell(column4);
>        table.addCell(column5);
>        table.addCell(p.cellDefault(post.getComment(),Cell.ALIGN_LEFT,0));
>    }
>}
>doc.add(table);
>
>
>    public Cell checkBox(boolean isChecked) throws Exception {
>        Chunk ch = new Chunk(isChecked?"X":" ");
>        Cell c = new Cell();
>        c.setBorder(15);     //top, bottom, left, right
>        c.setBorderWidth(1);
>        c.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
>        c.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_TOP);
>        c.setUseBorderPadding(false);
>        c.setUseAscender(true);
>        c.add(ch);
>        Table t = new Table(1);
>        t.setSpaceInsideCell(0);
>        t.setSpaceBetweenCells(0);
>        t.setSpacing(0);
>        t.addCell(c);
>        t.setWidth(22);
>        c = new Cell();
>        c.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
>        c.setVerticalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_TOP);
>        c.setUseBorderPadding(false);
>        c.setUseAscender(true);
>        c.add(t);
>        return c;
>   }



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