How to resize an Image to fit it into a PdfPCell?

The problem is that the chart image is too big for the cell.

These charts look like this:

Color charts

vulnerabilityDetailsTable.AddCell(new PdfPCell(img) {
    Border = PdfPCell.RIGHT_BORDER,
    BorderColor = new BaseColor(79, 129, 189),
    BorderWidth = 1,
    Padding = 5, MinimumHeight = 30, PaddingTop = 10 });
}

The problem is that the chart image is too big for the cell and I obtain this horrible result:

Resulting PDF

So I have the following 2 questions:

Can I resize the Image size into my code or do I have to do this with an image editor? If it's possible, where do have I to do this? Right after I load the image or when I put the image into my PDF table cell?
When I look at the image using my Windows Photo Viewer at 100% of the size, I see it much smaller than in the PDF. Why is this?

Posted on StackOverflow on Mar 12, 2014 by Andrea Nobili

There are different strategies for adding an Image to a PdfPCell.

You are using this:

// we wrap he image in a PdfPCell
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(img[0]);
table.AddCell(cell);

As documented, this option doesn't scale the image (which is what you want). If you want to scale the image, you could use this:

// we wrap the image in a PdfPCell and let iText scale it
cell = new PdfPCell(img[1], true);
table.AddCell(cell);

By adding the boolean parameter true, you ask iText to scale the image.

Another option is to use addCell() like this:

// we add the image with addCell()
table.AddCell(img[2]);

This will also scale the image, but use the properties of the default cell. If you don't change these properties, there will be a padding of 2 user units.

You also have the option to use composite mode:

cell = new PdfPCell();
cell.AddElement(img[3]);
table.AddCell(cell);

This will make sure the image is scaled to fill 100 percent of the cell width, unless you change the width percentage of the image, for instance:

img[3].WidthPercentage = 50;

This line will make sure that the width of the image is 50% of the available width of the cell.

Color charts