tables/starter_table
Create table which may span multiple pages.
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* Table starter:
* Create table which may span multiple pages
*
* Required software: PDFlib/PDFlib+PDI/PPS 7
* Required data: image file
*/
package com.pdflib.cookbook.pdflib.table;
import com.pdflib.pdflib;
import com.pdflib.PDFlibException;
public class starter_table
{
public static void main (String argv[])
{
/* This is where the data files are. Adjust as necessary. */
String searchpath = "../input";
String outfile = "starter_table.pdf";
String title = "Starter Table";
String imagefile = "nesrin.jpg";
int row, col, font, image, tf=-1, tbl=-1;
final int rowmax=50, colmax=5;
pdflib p = null;
final double llx= 50, lly=50, urx=550, ury=800;
String headertext = "Table header (centered across all columns)";
String result;
String optlist;
/* Dummy text for filling a cell with multi-line Textflow */
final String tf_text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur " +
"adi­pi­sicing elit, sed do eius­mod tempor " +
"incidi­dunt ut labore et dolore magna ali­qua. Ut enim ad " +
"minim ve­niam, quis nostrud exer­citation ull­amco " +
"la­bo­ris nisi ut ali­quip ex ea commodo " +
"con­sequat. Duis aute irure dolor in repre­henderit in " +
"voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pari­atur. " +
"Excep­teur sint occae­cat cupi­datat non proident, sunt " +
"in culpa qui officia dese­runt mollit anim id est laborum. ";
try {
p = new pdflib();
p.set_parameter("SearchPath", searchpath);
/* This means we must check return values of load_font() etc. */
p.set_parameter("errorpolicy", "return");
if (p.begin_document(outfile, "") == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
p.set_info("Creator", "PDFlib Cookbook");
p.set_info("Title", title + " $Revision: 1.9 $");
/* -------------------- Add table cells -------------------- */
/* ---------- Row 1: table header (spans all columns) */
row = 1; col = 1;
font = p.load_font("Times-Bold", "unicode", "");
if (font == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
optlist = "fittextline={position=center font=" + font +
" fontsize=14} " + "colspan=" + colmax;
tbl = p.add_table_cell(tbl, col, row, headertext, optlist);
if (tbl == -1)
throw new Exception("Error adding cell: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* ---------- Row 2: various kinds of content */
/* ----- Simple text cell */
row++; col=1;
optlist =
"fittextline={font=" + font + " fontsize=10 orientate=west}";
tbl = p.add_table_cell(tbl, col, row, "vertical line", optlist);
if (tbl == -1)
throw new Exception("Error adding cell: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* ----- Colorized background */
col++;
optlist =
"fittextline={font=" + font + " fontsize=10} " +
"matchbox={fillcolor={rgb 0.9 0.5 0}}";
tbl = p.add_table_cell(tbl, col, row, "some color", optlist);
if (tbl == -1)
throw new Exception("Error adding cell: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* ----- Multi-line text with Textflow */
col++;
font = p.load_font("Times-Roman", "unicode", "");
if (font == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
optlist =
"charref fontname=Times-Roman encoding=unicode fontsize=8 ";
tf = p.add_textflow(tf, tf_text, optlist);
if (tf == -1)
throw new Exception("Error: " + p.get_errmsg());
optlist = "margin=2 textflow=" + tf;
tbl = p.add_table_cell(tbl, col, row, "", optlist);
if (tbl == -1)
throw new Exception("Error adding cell: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* ----- Rotated image */
col++;
image = p.load_image("auto", imagefile, "");
if (image == -1)
throw new Exception ("Couldn't load image: " + p.get_errmsg());
optlist = "image=" + image + " fitimage={orientate=west}";
tbl = p.add_table_cell(tbl, col, row, "", optlist);
if (tbl == -1)
throw new Exception("Error adding cell: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* ----- Diagonal stamp */
col++;
optlist = "fittextline={font=" + font + " fontsize=10 stamp=ll2ur}";
tbl = p.add_table_cell(tbl, col, row, "entry void", optlist);
if (tbl == -1)
throw new Exception("Error adding cell: " + p.get_errmsg());
/* ---------- Fill row 3 and above with their numbers */
for (row++; row <= rowmax; row++)
{
for (col = 1; col <= colmax; col++)
{
String num;
num = "Col " + col + "/Row " + row;
optlist =
"colwidth=20% fittextline={font=" + font + " fontsize=10}";
tbl = p.add_table_cell(tbl, col, row, num, optlist);
if (tbl == -1)
throw new Exception("Error adding cell: " +
p.get_errmsg());
}
}
/* ---------- Place the table on one or more pages ---------- */
/*
* Loop until all of the table is placed; create new pages
* as long as more table instances need to be placed.
*/
do {
p.begin_page_ext(0, 0, "width=a4.width height=a4.height");
/* Shade every other row; draw lines for all table cells.
* Add "showcells showborder" to visualize cell borders
*/
optlist =
"header=1 fill={{area=rowodd fillcolor={gray 0.9}}} " +
"stroke={{line=other}} ";
/* Place the table instance */
result = p.fit_table(tbl, llx, lly, urx, ury, optlist);
if (result.equals("_error"))
throw new Exception ("Couldn't place table : " +
p.get_errmsg());
p.end_page_ext("");
} while (result.equals("_boxfull"));
/* Check the result; "_stop" means all is ok. */
if (!result.equals("_stop"))
{
if (result.equals( "_error"))
{
throw new Exception ("Error when placing table: " +
p.get_errmsg());
}
else
{
/* Any other return value is a user exit caused by
* the "return" option; this requires dedicated code to
* deal with.
*/
throw new Exception ("User return found in Textflow");
}
}
/* This will also delete Textflow handles used in the table */
p.delete_table(tbl, "");
p.end_document("");
} catch (PDFlibException e) {
System.err.print("PDFlib exception occurred:\n");
System.err.print("[" + e.get_errnum() + "] " + e.get_apiname() +
": " + e.get_errmsg() + "\n");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println(e.getMessage());
} finally {
if (p != null) {
p.delete();
}
}
}
}