Can someone help me with this one? I hope I didn't misunderstand any questions
that were asked.
>
>
> LOL. The CreatePDF procedure below successfully creates a my PDF. It
> also hooks up the table event but couldn't make it further than tat.
> .... Dim myevent As New PdfPTableEvents
> my_pdf_tbl.setTableEvent(myevent)
>
> MyEventhandler does not work however. I just want to iterate over each
> row and column to get the text and the x,y cords.
>
> The task I have is not much more difficult than that. Inside the Event
> handler I want to
> get the coordinates of text as well as write text to other file
> formats. These other formats are not priorities so I am laying the
> groundwork
> for being able to quickly convert from PDF to these other file formats.
>
> As far as technique, TableLayouts it is the recommended and easiest
> way to accomplish this according to the examples in the ItextSharp
> exercises on Sourceforge. It seems to be manageable. But the example
> does so much with colors and rotations and all, I can't pick out the
> exact code I need. So example would be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks for quick responses.
>
>
>
> > Show us your PDF. We'll poke around and see what we can see. You
> might
> > be building the
> > form inefficiently, in which case a code change on your end may
> produce
> > similar results.
> > Might not, too... but we can't tell unless we see a PDF.
> >
> > [rodney.williams]
> > 1. Can someone provide code in either C# or Java ( I can usually
> > translate into vb.net) which simply fires a table event where I can
> > iterate through each row and column. My understanding is that table
> > layout and canvassing is involved. If we can build on the code I
> > provided, I hope the code will be simple. I provided a working
> > CreatePDF but The PDF Event procedure is one I tried to make work
> but
> > couldn't. My goal is to get the x,y coordinates as well as the text
> > from the fields to create and other some other file types.
> >
> > >> What was the first question? You've presented some code.
> > >> Does it work? Or is there a problem with it?
> > >> It's hard to tell because it's written in VB.NET,
> > >> and I don't know VB.NET. If also failed to find a question.
> > >>
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> >
> > [rodney.williams]
> > Yes, the calculations are done by the program and are placed in the
> PDF
> > Table. I can't find examples anywhere of continuous horizontal scroll
> > as you would do in Excel. This is not related to the first question.
> >
>
>
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