Boxable - A java library to build tables in PDF documents.

Boxable is a library that can be used to easily create tables in pdf documents. It uses the PDFBox PDF library under the hood.

Features

• Build tables in pdf documents
• Convert csv data into tables in pdf documents
• Convert Lists into tables in pdf documents

Boxable supports next tables features

• HTML tags in cell content (not all! <p>,<i>,<b>,<br>,<ul>,<ol>,<li>)
• Horizontal & Vertical Alignment of the text
• Images inside cells and outside table (image scale is also supported)
• basic set of rendering attributes for lines (borders)
• rotated text (by 90 degrees)
• writing text outside tables

Maven

<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.dhorions</groupId>
<artifactId>boxable</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>

For other build systems, check the Maven Central Repository.

Tutorial

A tutorial is being created and will be accessible at http://dhorions.github.io/boxable/. If you want to help, please let us know here.

Usage examples

Create a pdf from a csv file

Stringdata = readData("https://s3.amazonaws.com/misc.quodlibet.be/Boxable/Eurostat_Immigration_Applications.csv");
BaseTablepdfTable = newBaseTable(yStart, yStartNewPage, bottomMargin, tableWidth, margin, doc, page, true,true);
DataTablet = newDataTable(pdfTable, page);
t.addCsvToTable(data, DataTable.HASHEADER, ';');
pdfTable.draw();

Output : CSVExamplePortrait.pdf

Create a pdf from a List

List<List> data = newArrayList();
data.add(newArrayList<>(
Arrays.asList("Column One", "Column Two", "Column Three", "Column Four", "Column Five")));
for (inti = 1; i <= 100; i++) {
data.add(newArrayList<>(
Arrays.asList("Row " + i + " Col One", "Row " + i + " Col Two", "Row " + i + " Col Three", "Row " + i + " Col Four", "Row " + i + " Col Five")));
BaseTabledataTable = newBaseTable(yStart, yStartNewPage, bottomMargin, tableWidth, margin, doc, page, true, true);
DataTablet = newDataTable(dataTable, page);
t.addListToTable(data, DataTable.HASHEADER);
dataTable.draw();
}

Output : ListExampleLandscape.pdf

##Build tables in pdf documents

BaseTabletable = newBaseTable(yStart, yStartNewPage, bottomMargin, tableWidth, margin, doc, page, true,
drawContent);
//Create Header rowRow<PDPage> headerRow = table.createRow(15f);
Cell<PDPage> cell = headerRow.createCell(100, "Awesome Facts About Belgium");
cell.setFont(PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD);
cell.setFillColor(Color.BLACK);
table.addHeaderRow(headerRow);
List<String[]> facts = getFacts();
for (String[] fact : facts) {
Row<PDPage> row = table.createRow(10f);
cell = row.createCell((100 / 3.0f) * 2, fact[0] );
for (inti = 1; i < fact.length; i++) {
cell = row.createCell((100 / 9f), fact[i]);
}
}
table.draw();

Retrieving current table page

If table is displayed on multiple pages the current page can be obtained with table.getCurrentPage(). Something like :

[...]
// did we change the page?if (table.getCurrentPage() != page) {
cos.close();
page = table.getCurrentPage();
cos = newPDPageContentStream(document, page, true, true);
}

Special Thanks to these awesome contributers :

• dgautier
• ZeerDonker
• Frulenzo
• dobluth
• schmitzhermes

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Copyright 2016

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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