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Hello, all!

I have following problem: I'm creating a pdf document which contains a table with complex header.

The cell in the first row:
-> contains text without line breaks
-> is aligned to the left
-> is merged 1 column to the right
-> the text is "Time"

The cell in the second row:
-> contains text with 2 line breaks
-> is aligned to the right
-> the text is "Timetable\r\nPlan\r\n[hr]"

To get the correct width of the column I get the maximum of the text widths. In the second row I split the text via Environment.NewLine and measure each part separately.
Finally I add left/right padding of the cell and width of left/right borders and get the resulting column width.

Now the problem: after setting column width to the resulting value and rendering, the cell with line breaks gets an additional line break: after "Timetable". It literally looks like:
-----------
Time
-----------
Timetable

........Plan
........[hr]
-----------

(sorry for dots - spaces are not displayed in the final post)

If I add 4 points to the width the automatic line break disappears. But (!!!) in this case the first word "Timetable" gets 4 point indentation to the right due to the column right alignment.
-----------
Time
-----------
.Timetable
........Plan
........[hr]
-----------

I think it is the line break that is not displayed, but is somehow calculated increasing needed column width while rendering.

My first idea was to split the problematic cell into 3 rows and fill in the three strings separately, but it would be really the plan B, because it increases the hight of the table header and place is important.

Has anyone any ideas how could I handle this issue?
Thanks in advance!

I would make the cell in the second row left-aligned and use a right-aligned tabstop for the second and third line of text.

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Best regards
Thomas
(Freelance Software Developer with several years of MigraDoc/PDFsharp experience)