itextsharp: changing font size of pdfptable

Question

how do i set the font for a pdfptable?

Answer 1

You must set the font in each cell when you're creating a phrase:

Dim yourFont As BaseFont = BaseFont.CreateFont( _
  Current.Server.MapPath("~/fonts/somefont.TTF"), _
  BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.EMBEDDED)
Dim mainFont As New Font(yourFont, SOME_FONT_SIZE, Font.NORMAL)

Dim cell As New PdfPCell(New Phrase("some text", mainFont))
yourTable.Add(cell)

Answer 2

You need to create a 'Base Font' object which is a little different than a regular font object in iTextSharp. You assign the font to each element (phrase, paragraph, etc.) that you create for the PdfPTable.

Dim bfR As iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont
  bfR = iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.CreateFont("verdana.ttf", iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, iTextSharp.text.pdf.BaseFont.EMBEDDED)

I'm using the IDENTITY_H property here so that support for other alphabets is enabled.