> Is there some way to keep a PdfPTable on the same page as long as it fits?
>
> I see the keepTogether property but it seems to have no effect.
>
> I don't want to split the table unless it will not fit on one page.
>
> thanks,
>
> Rick
>
>
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Look at the writeTable() method
import com.lowagie.text.BadElementException;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import com.lowagie.text.Cell;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.ExceptionConverter;
import com.lowagie.text.PageSize;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.Rectangle;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.lowagie.text.Phrase;
import com.lowagie.text.Table;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPageEventHelper;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;
import com.lowagie.text.Font;
//import com.lowagie.text.FontFactory;
import com.lowagie.text.Image;
import com.lowagie.text.Element;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ColumnText;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
/**
*
* @author Sean K Anderson - Data Virtue 2006
*/
public class PDFInvoice extends PDFReport {
/** Creates a new instance of PDFReport */
PDFInvoice ( String file, PdfPTable header) {
super (file);
System.out.println( header.getTotalHeight());
ct.setSimpleColumn(36, 36, PageSize.LETTER.width() - 36,
PageSize.LETTER.height() - header.getTotalHeight()-16, 18,
Element.ALIGN_LEFT);
this.setHeader(header);
}
public PdfPCell getCell (String text){
return new PdfPCell ();
}
public void setHeader (PdfPTable pdft){
head = pdft;
head.setTotalWidth(PageSize.LETTER.width() - 72);
}
public void setBody (PdfPTable b){
b.setTotalWidth(PageSize.LETTER.width()-72);
body = b;
}
public void writeTable (PdfPTable b){
//b.setSplitLate(true);
//b.setSplitRows(true);
float rowh = b.getRowHeight(1);
float hf = head.getTotalHeight()+foot.getTotalHeight()+32;
float bs = PageSize.LETTER.height() - hf;
float chink = bs / rowh - 1;
float to = chink;
float rows = b.getTotalHeight() / rowh;
float a = 0;
do {
b.writeSelectedRows((int)a, (int)to, 36,
PageSize.LETTER.height()-head.getTotalHeight()-16,
writer.getDirectContent());
try {
document.newPage();
} catch (DocumentException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
a += chink;
to += chink;
}while (a < rows);
//
//b.writeSelectedRows(0, -1, 36,
PageSize.LETTER.height()-head.getTotalHeight()-16,
// writer.getDirectContent());
}
public void setFooter (PdfPTable pdft){
foot = pdft;
foot.setTotalWidth(PageSize.LETTER.width() - 72);
}
public float howManyPages (PdfPTable pdfpt) {
//pdfpt.setTotalWidth(PageSize.LETTER.width()-72);
float th = pdfpt.getTotalHeight();
System.out.println("Body Size "+ th);
float hf = head.getTotalHeight()+foot.getTotalHeight();
float bs = PageSize.LETTER.height() - hf;
System.out.println(bs / th);
return th / bs;
}
public void build () {
pages = this.howManyPages(body);
//float t = 1 - a;
///System.out.println("Remainder of pages % 1.0 = " + a);
//if (a != 0 ) pages += a;
if (pages <= 1) pages = 1;
if (pages > 1){
float a = pages % 1.0f;
float r = 1 - a;
pages += r;
}
System.out.println("PAGES: "+pages);
writeTable (body);
}
/**
*
*
*
*
**/
public void onEndPage(PdfWriter writer, Document doc) {
try {
if (water_mark){
writeWatermark();
}
Rectangle page = doc.getPageSize();
PdfPTable h = new PdfPTable(head);
//System.out.println(h.getTotalHeight());
h.writeSelectedRows(0, -1, 36, PageSize.LETTER.height()-16 ,
writer.getDirectContent());
//ct.setYLine(842 - 200);
//page.height() - 36 + h.getTotalHeight()
//ct.setYLine(page.height() - (h.getTotalHeight() + 36));
//document.add(head);
//PdfPTable foot = new PdfPTable(1);
// for (int k = 1; k <= 6; ++k)
/* if (!summary_written){
PdfPCell footerCell = new PdfPCell (new Phrase ("Page: " +
document.getPageNumber()+ " Continued...", new Font
(doc_font, font_size+2, font_style)));
footerCell.setBorder(Rectangle.BOX);
footerCell.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
foot.addCell(footerCell);
}else foot = summary;
foot.setTotalWidth(page.width() - document.leftMargin() -
document.rightMargin());
**/
foot.deleteLastRow();
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell (new Phrase("Page: " +
writer.getPageNumber()+ " of " + (int)pages,
getDocFont(0,0)));
cell.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_RIGHT);
cell.setColspan(2);
cell.setGrayFill(.8f);
foot.addCell(cell);
foot.writeSelectedRows(0, -1, document.leftMargin(),
document.bottomMargin()+foot.getTotalHeight(),
writer.getDirectContent());
}
catch (Exception e) {
throw new ExceptionConverter(e);
}
}
private float pages;
private PdfPTable head;
private PdfPTable body;
private PdfPTable foot;
//private boolean summary_written = false;
}
Sean - Data Virtue
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