JarCastingPDFBox Table
A small library to add multipage table support to Apache's PDFBox (https://pdfbox.apache.org/).
How to use?
You can then use the library in your Maven projects like this (it's on Maven Central):
<dependency>
<groupId>com.moebiusgames</groupId>
<artifactId>pdfbox-table</artifactId>
<version>1.1.1</version>
</dependency>
License
This library is licensed under MIT license and can therefore be used in any project, even for commercial ones.
Example
public class PDFTableExample {
private static final int COLUMN_DATE = 0;
private static final int COLUMN_TIME_FROM = 1;
private static final int COLUMN_TIME_TO = 2;
private static final int COLUMN_COMMENT = 3;
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
try (PDDocument doc = new PDDocument()) {
PDPage firstPage = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
PDFRenderContext context = new PDFRenderContext(doc, firstPage);
//heading
PDFLabel heading = new PDFLabel((int) (PDRectangle.A4.getWidth() - 40));
heading.setText("Some Heading");
heading.getCell().setFontSize(16).setPaddingBottom(10 * PDFUtils.MM_TO_POINTS_72DPI);
heading.render(context, 10 * PDFUtils.MM_TO_POINTS_72DPI,
PDRectangle.A4.getHeight() - 10 * PDFUtils.MM_TO_POINTS_72DPI);
PDFTable reportTable = PDFTable.createWithSomeFixedColumnWidths(
PDRectangle.A4.getWidth() - 20 * PDFUtils.MM_TO_POINTS_72DPI, // full A4 width minus 20mm margin
22 * PDFUtils.MM_TO_POINTS_72DPI, // width COLUMN_DATE
24 * PDFUtils.MM_TO_POINTS_72DPI, // width COLUMN_TIME_FROM
24 * PDFUtils.MM_TO_POINTS_72DPI, // width COLUMN_TIME_TO
PDFTable.AUTO_DETERMINE_COLUMN_WIDTH // width COLUMN_COMMENT uses the rest that is available
);
// repeat headers on every new page
reportTable.setColumnHeadersMode(PDFTable.ColumnHeadersMode.COLUMN_HEADERS_ON_EVERY_PAGE);
reportTable.getColumn(COLUMN_DATE)
.setHeading("Date")
.setHeadingBackgroundColor(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
reportTable.getColumn(COLUMN_TIME_FROM)
.setHeading("From")
.setHeadingBackgroundColor(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
reportTable.getColumn(COLUMN_TIME_TO)
.setHeading("Till")
.setHeadingBackgroundColor(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
reportTable.getColumn(COLUMN_COMMENT)
.setHeading("Comment")
.setHeadingBackgroundColor(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
for (int i = 0; i < 200; ++i) {
PDFTableRow row = reportTable.addRow();
LocalDateTime from = LocalDateTime.now();
LocalDateTime till = from.plus(12, ChronoUnit.MINUTES);
row.getCell(COLUMN_DATE).setContent(from.toLocalDate().format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE));
row.getCell(COLUMN_TIME_FROM).setContent(from.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_TIME));
row.getCell(COLUMN_TIME_TO).setContent(till.format(DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_TIME));
row.getCell(COLUMN_COMMENT).setContent("Some multiline comment for line number "
+ i + " which will span over multiple lines for sure");
}
reportTable.render(context,
10 * PDFUtils.MM_TO_POINTS_72DPI // margin left of 10mm
);
// make sure to call this before saving the document
// to close all content streams on all pages
context.closeAllPages();
doc.save(new File("test.pdf"));
}
}
}
which will render a PDF document like this:
