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*
* This code is part of the 'iText Tutorial'.
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*
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package com.lowagie.examples.objects.tables;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.PageSize;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPCell;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
/**
* Defining the spacing between the table and other content.
*/
public class TableSpacing {
/**
* Defining the spacing between the table and other content.
*
* @param args
* no arguments needed
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("TableSpacing");
// step1
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4);
try {
// step2
PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
new FileOutputStream("TableSpacing.pdf"));
// step3
document.open();
// step4
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("header with colspan 3"));
cell.setColspan(3);
table.addCell(cell);
table.addCell("1.1");
table.addCell("2.1");
table.addCell("3.1");
table.addCell("1.2");
table.addCell("2.2");
table.addCell("3.2");
cell = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("cell test1"));
cell.setBorderColor(new Color(255, 0, 0));
table.addCell(cell);
cell = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("cell test2"));
cell.setColspan(2);
cell.setBackgroundColor(new Color(0xC0, 0xC0, 0xC0));
table.addCell(cell);
table.setWidthPercentage(50);
document.add(new Paragraph("We add 2 tables:"));
document.add(table);
document.add(table);
document.add(new Paragraph("They are glued to eachother"));
document.add(table);
document.add(new Paragraph("This is not very nice. Turn to the next page to see how we solved this"));
document.newPage();
document.add(new Paragraph("We add 2 tables, but with a certain 'SpacingBefore':"));
table.setSpacingBefore(15f);
document.add(table);
document.add(table);
document.add(new Paragraph("Unfortunately, there was no spacing after."));
table.setSpacingAfter(15f);
document.add(table);
document.add(new Paragraph("This is much better, don't you think so?"));
} catch (Exception de) {
de.printStackTrace();
}
// step5
document.close();
}
}