Style Individual Table Cells

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I am drawing tables onto my document, and I am struggling to format individual table cells.

Ideally I want to make my header/ footers bold text. I have tried just using html bold tags but this does not seem to work with the selected font, which is Century Gothic. Elsewhere in my document when I was to render the font as bold I actually select Century Gothic Bold as the font.

I have tried putting some code in to select the font on a cell by cell basis but that only seems to format the entire table as bold, not individual cells.

With the default font (Arial?) the bold html tags do seem to work.

Any ideas how I can get formatting control with a specific font please?

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chris_adsi Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 19 May 21 Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote chris_adsi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Style Individual Table Cells Posted: 25 Jan 22 at 12:22PM
	Hi I am drawing tables onto my document, and I am struggling to format individual table cells. Ideally I want to make my header/ footers bold text. I have tried just using html bold tags but this does not seem to work with the selected font, which is Century Gothic. Elsewhere in my document when I was to render the font as bold I actually select Century Gothic Bold as the font. I have tried putting some code in to select the font on a cell by cell basis but that only seems to format the entire table as bold, not individual cells. With the default font (Arial?) the bold html tags do seem to work. Any ideas how I can get formatting control with a specific font please?

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3529	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Jan 22 at 10:48PM
	Hi Chris, i don't know what you've read here in the forum and in the resources so far... It would be good to see your code (a snippet with the table-syntax) to help. Here's a thread with a good sample from Rowan: http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/create-table-exactly-like-this-sample_topic1907.html Here's a kb-article about how to insert a table into a pdf: https://www.debenu.com/kb/insert-table-pdf/ Starting your search from here could give you many more results and help: https://www.debenu.com/docs/pdf_library_reference/Search.php
	Cheers, Ingo

chris_adsi Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 19 May 21 Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote chris_adsi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Jan 22 at 8:34AM
	Hi Ingo Funnily enough it was exactly that first link where I started! I hadn't seen that second one so wasn't familiar with the concept of the NormalFont BoldFont etc concept - that looks like it may well be what I need so will give it a try. This is my code : Set flds = FetchDocFields(lngType, lngSect, strUser, 1) lngFont = objPDF.AddTrueTypeFont(doc.FontName, 0) lngRes = objPDF.SelectFont(lngFont) 'set to default for the table lngRes = objPDF.SetHTMLNormalFont("Default", lngFont) 'how many rows? For Each fld In flds If fld.FieldType = FieldType.Table Then 'table level settings colms = fld.DrawOptions strBordColour = fld.BorderColour dblBordWidth = fld.BorderWidth End If If fld.FieldType = FieldType.TableRow Then rows = rows + 1 End If Next 'create the table skeleton lngTable = objPDF.CreateTable(rows, colms) 'Specify color and width of table borders If strBordColour <> "" Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableBorderColor(lngTable, 0, GetColourRGB(strBordColour, 0), GetColourRGB(strBordColour, 1), GetColourRGB(strBordColour, 2)) lngRes = objPDF.SetTableThinBorders(lngTable, 1, GetColourRGB(strBordColour, 0), GetColourRGB(strBordColour, 1), GetColourRGB(strBordColour, 2)) End If If dblBordWidth > 0 Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableBorderWidth(lngTable, 0, dblBordWidth) End If 'Specify table row height lngRes = objPDF.SetTableRowHeight(lngTable, 1, rows, 0) For Each fld In flds Select Case fld.FieldType Case FieldType.TableRow 'resest row = row + 1 ColM = 1 If fld.Height > 0 Then 'Specify row height lngRes = objPDF.SetTableRowHeight(lngTable, row, row, fld.Height) End If Case FieldType.TableCell 'render cell 'width lngRes = objPDF.SetTableColumnWidth(lngTable, ColM, ColM, fld.Width) 'alignment lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellAlignment(lngTable, 1, ColM, row, ColM, fld.Alignment) 'Font Size If fld.FontSize > 0 Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellTextSize(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, fld.FontSize) End If 'Border Colour If fld.BorderColour <> "" Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellBorderColor(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, 0, fld.BorderColourRGB(0), fld.BorderColourRGB(1), fld.BorderColourRGB(2)) End If 'border width If fld.BorderWidth > 0 Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellBorderWidth(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, 0, fld.BorderWidth) End If 'background fill If fld.BackgroundColour <> "" Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellBackgroundColor(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, fld.BackgroundColourRGB(0), fld.BackgroundColourRGB(1), fld.BackgroundColourRGB(2)) End If 'forecolour If fld.Colour <> "" Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellTextColor(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, fld.ColourRGB(0), fld.ColourRGB(1), fld.ColourRGB(2)) End If 'padding If fld.Padding > 0 Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellPadding(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, 0, fld.Padding) Else If fld.PadLeft > 0 Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellPadding(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, 1, fld.PadLeft) End If If fld.PadTop > 0 Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellPadding(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, 2, fld.PadTop) End If If fld.PadRight > 0 Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellPadding(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, 3, fld.PadRight) End If If fld.PadBottom > 0 Then lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellPadding(lngTable, row, ColM, row, ColM, 4, fld.PadBottom) End If End If 'put the actual content in lngRes = objPDF.SetTableCellContent(lngTable, row, ColM, fld.FixedValue) ColM = ColM + 1 'increment column counter End Select Next 'Draw the table onto the document lngRes = objPDF.DrawTableRows(lngTable, lngXPos, lngYPos, 400, 1, 0)

chris_adsi Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 19 May 21 Status: Offline Points: 23	Post Options Post Reply Quote chris_adsi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 26 Jan 22 at 8:46AM
	Hi Ingo (again) The SetHTMLBoldFont did the trick - just needed to make the table row a little larger in height for some reason for it to render OK but that may be the installed fonts. Just got to work out how to do colspan and rowspan now! Thanks