iText 5 - display background color when using rowspan

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Maven Dependency

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.itextpdf/itextpdf -->
<dependency>
    <groupid>com.itextpdf</groupid>
    <artifactid>itextpdf</artifactid>
    <version>5.5.11</version>
</dependency>

SimpleTable10.java

package com.javatutorialcorner.itextpdf;
 
import com.itextpdf.text.BaseColor;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Phrase;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
  
 
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
 
public class SimpleTable10 {
    public static final String DEST = "C:/JTC/SimpleTable10.pdf";
  
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
            DocumentException {
        File file = new File(DEST);
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        new SimpleTable10().createPdf(DEST);
    }
    public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        Document document = new Document();
        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
        document.open();
        PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(5);
        PdfPCell sn = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("S/N"));
        sn.setRowspan(2);
        sn.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.YELLOW);
        table.addCell(sn);
        PdfPCell name = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Name"));
        name.setColspan(3);
        name.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.CYAN);
        table.addCell(name);
        PdfPCell age = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Age"));
        age.setRowspan(2);
        age.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.GRAY);
        table.addCell(age);
        PdfPCell surname = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("SURNAME"));
        surname.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.BLUE);
        table.addCell(surname);
        PdfPCell firstname = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("FIRST NAME"));
        firstname.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.RED);
        table.addCell(firstname);
        PdfPCell middlename = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("MIDDLE NAME"));
        middlename.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.GREEN);
        table.addCell(middlename);
        PdfPCell f1 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("1"));
        f1.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.PINK);
        table.addCell(f1);
        PdfPCell f2 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("James"));
        f2.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.MAGENTA);
        table.addCell(f2);
        PdfPCell f3 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Fish"));
        f3.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.ORANGE);
        table.addCell(f3);
        PdfPCell f4 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("Stone"));
        f4.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.DARK_GRAY);
        table.addCell(f4);
        PdfPCell f5 = new PdfPCell(new Phrase("17"));
        f5.setBackgroundColor(BaseColor.LIGHT_GRAY);
        table.addCell(f5);
        document.add(table);
        document.close();
    }
  
}