How to Clip Text in a Table Cell and Wrap Text in Another Cell with RadPdfProcessing

Updated on Sep 8, 2026

Environment

Version	Product	Author
2026.3.826	RadPdfProcessing	Desislava Yordanova

Description

In RadPdfProcessing, text inserted into a TableCell automatically wraps onto subsequent lines when it exceeds the cell's allocated column width. There is no built-in NoWrap or Clip property on TableCell to truncate or clip text on a single line.

However, certain report layouts require a specific table cell to clip or truncate overflowing text without wrapping, while other cells in the same table row wrap their content across multiple lines normally.

This article demonstrates how to combine Table layout with FixedContentEditor.PushClipping() to draw clipped single-line text over a table cell while allowing adjacent cells to wrap.

Solution

To achieve this layout:

1. Create a Table with TableLayoutType.FixedWidth.
2. Define the first cell with a PreferredWidth and a spacer Block whose LineSpacingType = HeightType.Exact matches the desired cell height so the row reserves space.
3. In the second cell (wrappingCell), insert the multi-line text into a Block so it wraps naturally within its column width.
4. Draw the table onto the RadFixedPage using FixedContentEditor.DrawTable().
5. Create a FixedContentEditor instance, define the clipping boundary matching the first cell (cellBounds), and call PushClipping(cellBounds) to draw single-line text using DrawText(). Any text that extends beyond the cell's width is clipped instead of wrapped.

The following complete example demonstrates the implementation:

csharp

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.ColorSpaces;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.Data;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.Editing;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.Editing.Flow;
using Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.Editing.Tables;
#if WINDOWS
using System.Windows;
#else
using Telerik.Documents.Primitives;
#endif

namespace ClipTableCellTextExample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            RadFixedDocument document = new RadFixedDocument();

            RadFixedPage page = document.Pages.AddPage();
            Rect cellBounds = new Rect(10, 100, 150, 40);

            Table table = new Table();
            Border border = new Border(1, BorderStyle.Single, new RgbColor(0, 0, 0));
            table.Borders = new TableBorders(border);
            table.DefaultCellProperties.Borders = new TableCellBorders(border, border, border, border);
            table.LayoutType = TableLayoutType.FixedWidth;

            TableRow row = table.Rows.AddTableRow();
            TableCell cell = row.Cells.AddTableCell();
            cell.PreferredWidth = cellBounds.Width;

            Block cellLayout = cell.Blocks.AddBlock();
            cellLayout.LineSpacingType = HeightType.Exact;
            cellLayout.LineSpacing = cellBounds.Height;
            cellLayout.InsertText(" ");

            TableCell wrappingCell = row.Cells.AddTableCell();
            wrappingCell.PreferredWidth = 250;
            wrappingCell.Blocks.AddBlock().InsertText(
                "This is longer text in the second column. It is intentionally long enough to wrap across multiple lines within the table cell.");

            FixedContentEditor tableEditor = new FixedContentEditor(page, new SimplePosition());
            tableEditor.Position.Translate(cellBounds.X, cellBounds.Y);
            tableEditor.DrawTable(table);

            FixedContentEditor textEditor = new FixedContentEditor(page, new SimplePosition());
            textEditor.TextProperties.FontSize = 20;

            using (textEditor.PushClipping(cellBounds))
            {
                textEditor.Position.Translate(cellBounds.X, cellBounds.Y);
                textEditor.DrawText("Short text that must not wrap");
            }

            string outputPath = Path.Combine(AppContext.BaseDirectory, "two-line-document.pdf");
            byte[] exportedPdf = new PdfFormatProvider().Export(document, null);
            File.WriteAllBytes(outputPath, exportedPdf);

            Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo
            {
                FileName = outputPath,
                UseShellExecute = true
            });
        }
    }
}

See Also

• RadPdfProcessing Table Overview
• TableCell
• Block
• FixedContentEditor
• Clipping in RadPdfProcessing