I would like to fire an event to iterate through the rows and columns of
pdfptable to get celltext as well as coordinates.
This satisfies 2 of my needs:
1. With x,y coordinates I can write lines and dividers back to report
based on key words
2. I create Excel and HTML files from table data
The examples I find are far more complex than I need to accomplish my simple
need.
Here is code I have so far. It is written in VB.NET but I can convert C# to
VB.NET
' Using Itextsharp not itext so some methods may differ
Public Sub CreatePDF()
Dim doc As New Document
PdfWriter.GetInstance(doc, New FileStream("myfile.pdf", FileMode.Create))
doc.Open()
Dim my_pdf_tbl As PdfPTable
my_pdf_tbl = New PdfPTable(3) ' contains 3 rows
my_pdf_tbl.WidthPercentage = 100.0F
my_pdf_tbl.DefaultCell.Border = PdfCell.NO_BORDER
my_pdf_tbl.AddCell("Date")
my_pdf_tbl.AddCell("Sales")
my_pdf_tbl.AddCell("Guests")
my_pdf_tbl.HeaderRows = True 'End of table header
my_pdf_tbl.AddCell("0/21/2009")
my_pdf_tbl.AddCell("2345.09")
my_pdf_tbl.AddCell("17")
my_pdf_tbl.AddCell("0/21/2009")
my_pdf_tbl.AddCell("2345.09")
my_pdf_tbl.AddCell("17")
doc.Add(my_pdf_tbl)
Dim myevent As New PdfPTableEvents
my_pdf_tbl.setTableEvent(myevent)
' add the table with document add
doc.Add(my_pdf_tbl)
' add the table at an absolute position
my_pdf_tbl.WriteSelectedRows(0, -1, 100, 600, PdfWriter.getdirectcontent
doc.Close()
End Sub
Public Class PdfPTableEvents
Implements PdfPTableEvent
'
Public Sub tableLayout(ByVal table As PdfPTable, ByVal width()() As Double,
ByVal height()() As Double)
Dim sOutputTemplate As String = " Text is {0} : x-pos is {1} : y-pos is
{2} : cell height is {3} : cell width is {4}"
For i As Integer = 0 To 3
For j As Integer = 0 To 3
' I will write Values to Excel file here
debug.Writeline(string.Format(sOutputTemplate, text, x, y,
width, height)
Next j
Next i
End Sub
End Class
SECOND QUESTION
I am trying to persuade upper management that they will not lose features if we
migrate from Excel to PDF instead
In one report there are 50 columns of totals for each of their stores which
they can read by simply moving horizontal scroll bar to the last column in
Excel.
Can I accomplish the same with Itext/sharp?
Thanks in advance,
Rodney Williams/Programmer
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