[iText-questions] Reducing the nested table height

[Ralph Bohnet]

How do I reduce the height of a nested table?  I have an outer table that contains rows of PdfPtables, and the height of each row is more than if I simply added a PdfPCell.   Nested tables were added so that the page breaks occur on a row.   A sample test program below draws 2 tables, one with PdfPCells as rows and one with nested tables as rows.  How can I get the height of both tables to be the same?   Ralph Bohnet     ---------------------------- Sample test program -------------------------- import java.io.FileOutputStream; import com.lowagie.text.Document; import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException; import com.lowagie.text.Element; import com.lowagie.text.Font; import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCellEvent; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;     public class MyPdfPTableTest {       static final Font normal9pt = new Font(Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 9.5f, Font.NORMAL);       public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{           int [] int[] {1};         String[] text = new String[] {             "This is the first line",             "This is the second line",             "This is the third line",             "This is the fourth line",             "This is the Fifth line",             "This is the Sixth line",             "This is the seventh line"         };                 Document doc = new Document();         PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, new FileOutputStream("nested_tables.pdf"));         doc.open();         doc.add(new Paragraph("Table with cells only:"));           PdfPTable >         addContents(oneTable, text);         doc.add(oneTable);           doc.add(new Paragraph("Table with nested tables as rows:"));         PdfPTable nestedTables = createTransparentPdfPTable(ONE_COLUMN);         addContentsAsNestedTables(nestedTables, text);         doc.add(nestedTables);         doc.close();     }       private static void addContents(PdfPTable aTable, String[] details ) throws DocumentException {         for (int i =0; i < details.length; i++) {             addCell(aTable, details[i], 1, normal9pt, Element.ALIGN_LEFT, Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE, null);         }     }       private static void addContentsAsNestedTables(PdfPTable outerTable, String[] details ) throws DocumentException {         for (int i =0; i < details.length; i++) {             PdfPTable nestedTable = createTransparentPdfPTable(new int[] {1});             addCell(nestedTable, details[i], 1, normal9pt, Element.ALIGN_LEFT, Element.ALIGN_MIDDLE, null);             outerTable.addCell(nestedTable);         }     }         protected static PdfPTable createTransparentPdfPTable(int[] columnProportions) throws DocumentException {         PdfPTable newTable = new PdfPTable(columnProportions.length);         newTable.setWidths(columnProportions);         newTable.setWidthPercentage(100f);         PdfPCell defaultCell = newTable.getDefaultCell();         defaultCell.setHorizontalAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER);         defaultCell.setBorderWidth(0f);         return newTable;     }       protected static PdfPCell addCell(PdfPTable table, String content,  int colspan, Font font, int horizontalAlignment,                 int verticalAlignment,PdfPCellEvent specialAction)  throws DocumentException {         PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph(content, font));         cell.setColspan(colspan);         cell.setHorizontalAlignment(horizontalAlignment);         cell.setVerticalAlignment(verticalAlignment);         cell.setBorderWidth(0f);         cell.setPadding(0f);         if (specialAction != null) {             cell.setCellEvent(specialAction);         }         table.addCell(cell);         return cell;     } }