Question

for this line:

 c.WidthPercentage = 100F

i am getting this error:

Error 1 ‘WidthPercentage’ is not a member of ‘iTextSharp.text.Table’.

here’s the entire code. it’s taken directly from the tutorial

Imports System
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.IO
Imports iTextSharp.text
Imports iTextSharp.text.pdf
Namespace iTextSharp.tutorial.Chap05

Public Class Chap0514

    Public Sub New()
        Console.WriteLine("Chapter 5 example 14: nested tables")
        Dim document As Document = New Document
        Try
            PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, New FileStream("Chap0514.pdf", FileMode.Create))
            document.Open
            Dim secondTable As Table = New Table(2)
            secondTable.AddCell("2nd table 0.0")
            secondTable.AddCell("2nd table 0.1")
            secondTable.AddCell("2nd table 1.0")
            secondTable.AddCell("2nd table 1.1")
            Dim aTable As Table = New Table(4, 4)
            aTable.AutoFillEmptyCells = True
            aTable.AddCell("2.2", New Point(2, 2))
            aTable.AddCell("3.3", New Point(3, 3))
            aTable.AddCell("2.1", New Point(2, 1))
            aTable.InsertTable(secondTable, New Point(1, 3))
            document.Add(aTable)
            Dim thirdTable As Table = New Table(2)
            thirdTable.AddCell("3rd table 0.0")
            thirdTable.AddCell("3rd table 0.1")
            thirdTable.AddCell("3rd table 1.0")
            thirdTable.AddCell("3rd table 1.1")
            aTable = New Table(5, 5)
            aTable.AutoFillEmptyCells = True
            aTable.AddCell("2.2", New Point(2, 2))
            aTable.AddCell("3.3", New Point(3, 3))
            aTable.AddCell("2.1", New Point(2, 1))
            aTable.InsertTable(secondTable, New Point(1, 3))
            aTable.InsertTable(thirdTable, New Point(6, 2))
            document.Add(aTable)
            Dim a As Table = New Table(2)
            a.Widths = New Single() {85, 15}
            a.AddCell("a-1")
            a.AddCell("a-2")
            Dim b As Table = New Table(5)
            b.Widths = New Single() {15, 7, 7, 7, 7}
            b.AddCell("b-1")
            b.AddCell("b-2")
            b.AddCell("b-3")
            b.AddCell("b-4")
            b.AddCell("b-5")
            Dim c As Table = New Table(3, 1)
            c.WidthPercentage = 100F
            c.Widths = New Single() {20, 2, 78}
            c.InsertTable(a, New Point(0, 0))
            c.InsertTable(b, New Point(0, 2))
            document.Add(c)
            Dim t1 As Table = New Table(3)
            t1.AddCell("1.1")
            t1.AddCell("1.2")
            t1.AddCell("1.3")
            Dim t2 As Table = New Table(2)
            t2.AddCell("2.1")
            t2.AddCell("2.2")
            t1.InsertTable(t2)
            t1.AddCell("new cell")
            document.Add(t1)
            t1 = New Table(2, 2)
            Dim i As Integer = 0
            While i < 4
                t1.AddCell("t1")
                System.Math.Min(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i),i-1)
            End While
            t2 = New Table(3, 3)
            i= 0
            While i < 9
                If i = 4 Then
                    t2.InsertTable(t1)
                Else
                    t2.AddCell("t2")
                End If
                System.Math.Min(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i),i-1)
            End While
            Dim t3 As Table = New Table(4, 4)
            i= 0
            While i < 16
                If i = 10 Then
                    t3.InsertTable(t2)
                Else
                    t3.AddCell("t3")
                End If
                System.Math.Min(System.Threading.Interlocked.Increment(i),i-1)
            End While
            document.Add(t3)
        Catch de As DocumentException
            Console.Error.WriteLine(de.Message)
        Catch ioe As IOException
            Console.Error.WriteLine(ioe.Message)
        End Try
        document.Close
    End Sub
End Class 

End Namespace

Answer 1

It appears that you are using a version of iTextSharp that is more recent than the version used in the tutorial. This should work:

c.Width = 100F