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How to create a table in a PDF using Java
Problem Description
How to create a table in a PDF using Java.
Solution
Following is the program to create a table in a PDF using Java.
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDocument; import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfWriter; import com.itextpdf.layout.Document; import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Cell; import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Table; public class AddingTableToPDF { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { String file = "C:/EXAMPLES/itextExamples/addingTableToPDF.pdf"; //Creating a PdfDocument object PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(file)); //Creating a Document object Document doc = new Document(pdfDoc); //Creating a table Table table = new Table(2); //Adding cells to the table table.addCell(new Cell().add("Name")); table.addCell(new Cell().add("Raju")); table.addCell(new Cell().add("Id")); table.addCell(new Cell().add("1001")); table.addCell(new Cell().add("Designation")); table.addCell(new Cell().add("Programmer")); //Adding Table to document doc.add(table); //Closing the document doc.close(); System.out.println("Table created successfully.."); } }
Output
java_itext
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