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PdfPTable column widths

PdfPTable column widths

2007-12-03 - By Nik Kolev

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Hi,

I have a couple of questions regarding column widths in a PdfPTable.

1) Is there a quick, out-of-the-box way to "tell" the table to set each
column width to the width of the cell (among the cells in the column)
with the maximum width?

2) If not, what's the best approach that you could recommend to do that?
I have a document that contains a number of tables that are added one
after another. The data and the metadata in each table vary at runtime
(depending on the data type and the actual data the table represents).
There are header rows which span multiple columns. What I see is that
each column gets an even percent of the width of the table regardless of
the data that it wraps. One approach that I tried but did not work (keep
in mind that I've only been using iText for 2 days before trying to kill
me) is keeping track of the width of the data of each cell in a given
column, using ColumnText.getWidth(Phrase p) - p being used when
constructing the PdfPCell-s; and at the end doing a table.setWidths with
the max width of each column.

I apologize if this has already been addressed in a previous post, but a
search and a quick scan did not find me a match.

Thanks, -nik

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-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
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<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)">
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<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple>

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I have a couple of questions regarding column widths in a
PdfPTable.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

1) Is there a quick, out-of-the-box way to “tell”
the table to set each column width to the width of the cell (among the cells in
the column) with the maximum width?<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

2) If not, what’s the best approach that you could
recommend to do that? I have a document that contains a number of tables that
are added one after another. The data and the metadata in each table vary at
runtime (depending on the data type and the actual data the table represents).
There
are header rows which span multiple columns. What I see is that each column
gets an even percent of the width of the table regardless of the data that it
wraps. One approach that I tried but did not work (keep in mind that I’ve
only been using iText for 2 days before trying to kill me) is keeping track of
the width of the data of each cell in a given column, using
ColumnText.getWidth(Phrase p) – p being used when constructing the
PdfPCell-s; and at the end doing a table.setWidths with the max width of each
column.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

I apologize if this has already been addressed in a previous
post, but a search and a quick scan did not find me a match.<o:p></o:p>

<o:p> </o:p>

Thanks, -nik<o:p></o:p>

</div>

</body>

</html>

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