Large tables
Example that shows how you can add a table little by little in order to keep the memory footprint low.
incompletetable
JAVA
JAVA
/**
* Example written by Bruno Lowagie
*/
package sandbox.tables;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import sandbox.WrapToTest;
@WrapToTest
public class IncompleteTable {
public static final String DEST = "results/tables/incomplete_table.pdf";
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
DocumentException {
File file = new File(DEST);
file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
new IncompleteTable().createPdf(DEST);
}
public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
document.open();
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(5);
table.setHeaderRows(1);
table.setSplitRows(false);
table.setComplete(false);
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {table.addCell("Header " + i);}
for (int i = 0; i < 500; i++) {
if (i%5 == 0) {
document.add(table);
}
table.addCell("Test " + i);
}
table.setComplete(true);
document.add(table);
document.close();
}
}