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Batman
Batman

Reputation: 928

Add a PDFPTable to bottom of page in iText

I'm trying to add a table as a footer containing all the copyright text, page number etc. But I can't find any supporting method that'll accept a PdfPTable

For a phrase there is code like:

ColumnText.showTextAligned(writer.getDirectContent(),
        Element.ALIGN_CENTER, new Phrase(
            String.format("%d", document.getPageNumber())),
            (document.getPageSize().getLeft() + document.getPageSize().getRight())/2,
            document.getPageSize().getBottom() + 18, 0);

Upvotes: 5

Views: 15875

Answers (3)

DKATyler
DKATyler

Reputation: 971

The examples posted by Bruno are a good pointer, here's an example without magic numbers:

    private void writeFooterTable(PdfWriter writer, Document document, PdfPTable table) {
        final int FIRST_ROW = 0;
        final int LAST_ROW = -1;
        //Table must have absolute width set.
        if(table.getTotalWidth()==0)
            table.setTotalWidth((document.right()-document.left())*table.getWidthPercentage()/100f);
        table.writeSelectedRows(FIRST_ROW, LAST_ROW, document.left(), document.bottom()+table.getTotalHeight(),writer.getDirectContent());
    }

This will write the PdfPTable within the document margins at the bottom overlapping any text you have at the bottom. If you wish to write the table in the margin, use: document.bottom() instead of document.bottom()+table.getTotalHeight().

Header/Footer Example

As a relevant note if you're following the example on this link, the "art" box does not appear to be required and the magic numbers 36, 54, 559, 788 correspond to:

document.left(), document.bottom(), document.right(), document.top()

Upvotes: 8

Bruno Lowagie
Bruno Lowagie

Reputation: 77528

The PdfPTable class has a method writeSelectedRows() that can be used to add (a selection of columns and) rows at an absolute position.

Examples:

Upvotes: 8

VahidN
VahidN

Reputation: 19156

To implement a custom footer you need to implement the PdfPageEventHelper.

Upvotes: 0

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