I tried that path. However, it was not a sound way(there were some offsets
involved, padding would impact results and so thus, no quarantee that it
would be correct 100% of the time) and also I would be duplicating the table
split logic that is in iText source which I do not find to be a good
practice.
Thanks for all the brainstorming Mark. Riffla, as you can see there are
different ways to handle it. Good luck.
Nurettin
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Mark Storer <[email protected]> wrote:
> You might be able to do this with some custom cell rendering (which I
> believe is possible). You can check the dimensions of the cell vs the page
> (is there room for another row?), and draw your borders yourself.
>
> Kind of a pain, but I think it would work.
>
> --Mark Storer
> Senior Software Engineer
> Cardiff.com
>
> import legalese.Disclaimer;
> Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Nurettin DAG [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 11:32 AM
>
> *To:* Post all your questions about iText here
> *Subject:* Re: [iText-questions] Choice of "method"
>
> That is a way around it. I would personally like to see PdfPTable event
> notifying of table split event for cleaner and easier to understand code.
>
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Mark Storer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> With PdfContentByte you might be able to draw a white (or Other
>> Background Color) dashed line over the bottom line of the 'broken' table to
>> get the effect you want after the table has been rendered.
>>
>> --Mark Storer
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> Cardiff.com
>>
>> import legalese.Disclaimer;
>> Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Nurettin DAG [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 10:35 AM
>>
>> *To:* Post all your questions about iText here
>> *Subject:* Re: [iText-questions] Choice of "method"
>>
>> Mark, it sounds like a good idea. I don t really remember why I have
>> not combined PdfPTableEvent and PdfPageEvent to yield the same effect. I
>> might have run into some issues or I might have never thought about it. It
>> has been a while now. I do not see any reason why it would not work,
>> worthwhile to try and see. I will try it myself to see if that would work
>> when I get a chance.
>>
>> After I wrote the lines above and I kept thinking about it. Combing the
>> two would probably work for the continuation text requirement. However, my
>> requirement also included to draw borders around the table and if table was
>> split I was supposed to draw dashed border at the bottom. In short, I needed
>> to take actions both on split and no split cases which required me to know
>> about a possible split before the table event. (endOfPage will occur after
>> onTableEvent). That is why I think either onTableEvent or another event that
>> will trigger before onTableEvent needs to be added to notify of an upcoming
>> table split.
>>
>> Thanks Mark
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Mark Storer <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> IIRC, there's already an "end of page" event. Did that not work for
>>> you?
>>>
>>> --Mark Storer
>>> Senior Software Engineer
>>> Cardiff.com
>>>
>>> import legalese.Disclaimer;
>>> Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From:* Nurettin DAG [mailto:[email protected]]
>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2010 9:34 AM
>>> *To:* Post all your questions about iText here
>>> *Subject:* Re: [iText-questions] Choice of "method"
>>>
>>> I had a similar requirement and PdfPTable worked just fine for me
>>> except for the fact that I was not able to detect tables breaking across
>>> pages thus unable to write warnings like Ctnd on next page and ctnd from
>>> prev page in the new page.
>>>
>>> To resolve the issue I locally patched PdfPTable to notify listeners of
>>> the table split event which helped me display split warnings in the page. I
>>> was thinking of submitting the patch to sourceforge. However, it may not be
>>> acceptable because it will break backward compatibility. Do you guys also
>>> think that it is important to know about table split event?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Nurettin
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Mark Storer <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> So long as you're not directly manipulating the PdfContentByte, page
>>>> breaking & layout flow is handled for you by ColumnText, PdfPTable,
>>>> Paragraph, Document, Etc etc etc.
>>>>
>>>> --Mark Storer
>>>> Senior Software Engineer
>>>> Cardiff.com
>>>>
>>>> import legalese.Disclaimer;
>>>> Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>> > From: riffla [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 2:38 AM
>>>> > To: [email protected]
>>>> > Subject: [iText-questions] Choice of "method"
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi
>>>> >
>>>> > Having ordered the book "iText in Action" but not reveived it
>>>> > yet - I now need some advice here.
>>>> > I wonder which way I should go if I have the following
>>>> > consdiderations to
>>>> > make:
>>>> >
>>>> > - The PDF will be generated dynamically built upon data
>>>> > collected in several web forms (nothing strange about this)
>>>> > - But there are several parts where I don't know the length
>>>> > of ahead. For example the users is submitting multiple
>>>> > instances of certain strings - which could be implemented
>>>> > using PdfPTable - but how about page breaks here, will a
>>>> > PdfPTable automatically continue on the next page (and I
>>>> > might need a table header on each subsequent page informing
>>>> > that this table/list belongs to table/list from previous page)
>>>> > - And depending on other selections the user has made, some
>>>> > text blocks may vary in size. Is ColumnText a bad choice here
>>>> >
>>>> > Summarizing the nature of the PDF that is to be genereated is
>>>> > that I need automatic page break detection, and some
>>>> > automatic flow since I don't know the size of lists and
>>>> > length of texts ahead. And, additionally, we need to have a
>>>> > template to be loaded containing a first page header (logo, address
>>>> > etc) and a document-id vertical oriented in the left page
>>>> > margin, where the last 4 digits is corresponding to the total
>>>> > number of pages (dynamic) in the generated doc and the
>>>> > current page's sequential position within the PDF.
>>>> >
>>>> > Any advice?
>>>> >
>>>> > /R
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