Chapter 6. Constructing tables
This chapter covers
Working with
PdfPTableWorking with
PdfPCellWhat about class
Table?
If asked what iText’s primary goal is, different people provide different answers depending on the way they use iText. I use iText mostly to produce reports. If you ask me for the most important components when generating such a report, I don’t have to think twice. My answer is: tables, tables, and tables. I repeat the word three times and not without reason; the table class comes in three different flavors: PdfPTable, Table, and SimpleTable.
In this book, we’ll focus mainly on the most flexible and most important table class: PdfPTable. We’ll spend two examples on class Table, but only to list some of its advantages. We’ll use
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