Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
Hi, 1. It's certainly not an iText problem. 2. It's more a screen driver problem of the monitor* you are using. 3. As already stated it's cause is the physical* screen resolution and device space. (*) and this is one of the advantages old analog CRT monitors had over new LCD/TFT flat digital displays. The only way you could get rid of thick lines would be to have your screen driver antialias setting turned off. This way you could get very crisp equal thickness lines. By the same token if you could accurately measure the distance between lines on the screen, you would find that they are not equal where you specify equal distance - this error is +/- 1 pixel. This is based on the physical existance of a display pixel - or not, at a certain position, where you require the line been drawn What your display is trying to do, given a non integer pixel value in x-position of drawing (or worse in y-position), is to turn 2 pixels on at varying intensities to simulate the actual position your line should go..! Thus thicker.. Hope this natural limitation of current technology is clear enough. Thanks. George ennidhi wrote: Your problem is a non-issue caused by something called resolution and device space. Is there a way to address this problem using iText? or else is it ok to display like this? Thanks 1T3XT info wrote: ennidhi wrote: I Have tried using this method. Its good but problem is that width(thickness of the line) cannot be set. Again we have to go for setwidth***() method to set the thickness. There's a general setWidth() method you can use in combination with setBorder(). Anyway: that's irrelevant. Your problem is a non-issue caused by something called resolution and device space. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26841632.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
you can use setBorder(Rectangle.BOTTOM) Instead of setting the left, right and top border to 0, why not just tell iText it should only draw the bottom border? It won't solve your problem, but I prefer using setBorder(). I Have tried using this method. Its good but problem is that width(thickness of the line) cannot be set. Again we have to go for setwidth***() method to set the thickness. 1T3XT info wrote: ennidhi wrote: That was nitpicking too. I didn't like you setting the widths to 0 in order to remove the border. What do you mean by this statement? Do you mean not to set the borders with this method? Did you read my initial answer? you can use setBorder(Rectangle.BOTTOM) Instead of setting the left, right and top border to 0, why not just tell iText it should only draw the bottom border? It won't solve your problem, but I prefer using setBorder(). I have one more problem with the code: I know from the iText study to use writeselectedrows or document.write(table) methods to display large tables in different pages of the PDF. I have developed most of my code using the columns. Is there anyway, that I can display the big tables in the columns spreading on different pages of the PDF. If you want to avoid using writeSelectedRows(), and still be able to add large tables in different portions (to keep the memory usage low), I suggest that you read chapter 4 of iText in Action - SECOND edition; for the moment it's only available in the MEAP version: http://itextpdf.com/book/ -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26826460.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
ennidhi wrote: I Have tried using this method. Its good but problem is that width(thickness of the line) cannot be set. Again we have to go for setwidth***() method to set the thickness. There's a general setWidth() method you can use in combination with setBorder(). Anyway: that's irrelevant. Your problem is a non-issue caused by something called resolution and device space. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
Your problem is a non-issue caused by something called resolution and device space. Is there a way to address this problem using iText? or else is it ok to display like this? Thanks 1T3XT info wrote: ennidhi wrote: I Have tried using this method. Its good but problem is that width(thickness of the line) cannot be set. Again we have to go for setwidth***() method to set the thickness. There's a general setWidth() method you can use in combination with setBorder(). Anyway: that's irrelevant. Your problem is a non-issue caused by something called resolution and device space. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26838911.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
ennidhi wrote: Your problem is a non-issue caused by something called resolution and device space. Is there a way to address this problem using iText? It's not an iText problem. It's how the viewer works. If it's not an iText problem, why do you think iText (or any other product for that matter) can solve the non-existing problem? -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
To perhaps extend Bruno's point: When I look at the problem PDF you posted in PDFxchange Viewer (a free PDF viewer that permits annotation of PDFs from www.docu-track.com), the lines all look the same. There are no bold and non-bold lines. Regards, ---mr. bean re ennidhi wrote: Your problem is a non-issue caused by something called resolution and device space. Is there a way to address this problem using iText? or else is it ok to display like this? Thanks 1T3XT info wrote: ennidhi wrote: I Have tried using this method. Its good but problem is that width(thickness of the line) cannot be set. Again we have to go for setwidth***() method to set the thickness. There's a general setWidth() method you can use in combination with setBorder(). Anyway: that's irrelevant. Your problem is a non-issue caused by something called resolution and device space. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26840129.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
Looks fine to me. What program are you using to view them? What makes you think they are bold? can you post a screen shot of your problem with highlights on the issue? Leonard -Original Message- From: ennidhi [mailto:psatishb...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:59 AM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes Hi, I have developed the code based on the itext jars. Some of the table rows are appearing bold (lines diving the rows). Please suggest me here. I am attaching the code and the pdf files. http://old.nabble.com/file/p26812407/Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.pdf Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.pdf http://old.nabble.com/file/p26812407/Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.java Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.java -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26812407.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
Leonard Rosenthol-3 wrote: Looks fine to me. What program are you using to view them? What makes you think they are bold? can you post a screen shot of your problem with highlights on the issue? Leonard -Original Message- From: ennidhi [mailto:psatishb...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:59 AM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes Hi, I have developed the code based on the itext jars. Some of the table rows are appearing bold (lines diving the rows). Please suggest me here. I am attaching the code and the pdf files. http://old.nabble.com/file/p26812407/Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.pdf Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.pdf http://old.nabble.com/file/p26812407/Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.java Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.java -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26812407.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ http://old.nabble.com/file/p26823122/bold.docx bold.docx -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26823122.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
Please see the attachment.The red circled ones are looking bold compared to the other lines in the table. I have used the same type of code for all the lines of the table but only these are looking bold. But its showing fine when I take the print. What might be the reason for this behavior? Someone suggested me to use the table events instead of setborderwidths code. ennidhi wrote: Leonard Rosenthol-3 wrote: Looks fine to me. What program are you using to view them? What makes you think they are bold? can you post a screen shot of your problem with highlights on the issue? Leonard -Original Message- From: ennidhi [mailto:psatishb...@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 9:59 AM To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes Hi, I have developed the code based on the itext jars. Some of the table rows are appearing bold (lines diving the rows). Please suggest me here. I am attaching the code and the pdf files. http://old.nabble.com/file/p26812407/Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.pdf Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.pdf http://old.nabble.com/file/p26812407/Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.java Monthly_Strike_Rate_Report_All.java -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26812407.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ http://old.nabble.com/file/p26823122/bold.docx bold.docx -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26823130.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
ennidhi wrote: Please see the attachment.The red circled ones are looking bold compared to the other lines in the table. I have used the same type of code for all the lines of the table but only these are looking bold. But its showing fine when I take the print. What might be the reason for this behavior? The main problem is that you are nitpicking! If it prints OK, then there's no problem with the PDF. If you want to know the reason you should read the PDF Reference, especially the parts about user units and device space. Someone suggested me to use the table events instead of setborderwidths code. That was nitpicking too. I didn't like you setting the widths to 0 in order to remove the border. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
That was nitpicking too. I didn't like you setting the widths to 0 in order to remove the border. What do you mean by this statement? Do you mean not to set the borders with this method? I have one more problem with the code: I know from the iText study to use writeselectedrows or document.write(table) methods to display large tables in different pages of the PDF. I have developed most of my code using the columns. Is there anyway, that I can display the big tables in the columns spreading on different pages of the PDF. Thanks... 1T3XT info wrote: ennidhi wrote: Please see the attachment.The red circled ones are looking bold compared to the other lines in the table. I have used the same type of code for all the lines of the table but only these are looking bold. But its showing fine when I take the print. What might be the reason for this behavior? The main problem is that you are nitpicking! If it prints OK, then there's no problem with the PDF. If you want to know the reason you should read the PDF Reference, especially the parts about user units and device space. Someone suggested me to use the table events instead of setborderwidths code. That was nitpicking too. I didn't like you setting the widths to 0 in order to remove the border. -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Table-lines-appearing-bold-sometimes-tp26812407p26823693.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
Re: [iText-questions] Table lines appearing bold sometimes
ennidhi wrote: That was nitpicking too. I didn't like you setting the widths to 0 in order to remove the border. What do you mean by this statement? Do you mean not to set the borders with this method? Did you read my initial answer? you can use setBorder(Rectangle.BOTTOM) Instead of setting the left, right and top border to 0, why not just tell iText it should only draw the bottom border? It won't solve your problem, but I prefer using setBorder(). I have one more problem with the code: I know from the iText study to use writeselectedrows or document.write(table) methods to display large tables in different pages of the PDF. I have developed most of my code using the columns. Is there anyway, that I can display the big tables in the columns spreading on different pages of the PDF. If you want to avoid using writeSelectedRows(), and still be able to add large tables in different portions (to keep the memory usage low), I suggest that you read chapter 4 of iText in Action - SECOND edition; for the moment it's only available in the MEAP version: http://itextpdf.com/book/ -- This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/