Question

I’m working with a pdf which display many tables. When a table doesn’t fit on the rest of the page, iText cut the table and set the rest of them on the next page.

I want that if a table doesn’t fit on the rest of the page, then place it on a new page.

How can I do that?

Answer 1

There are different ways to do this; these are three options:

1. Calculate the height of the table, compare it to the space that is left. When you calculate the height of a table before it’s added to the document, the height is always 0, UNLESS you define the width of the table using setTotalWidth() and setLockedWidth(). You can find the current Y position on the page using the getVerticalPosition() method (in PdfWriter).
2. Add the table to a ColumnText object, and add the ColumnText object to a rectangle defining the space left on the page in simulation mode. If the content of the ColumnText object couldn’t be rendered entirely, trigger a new Page before adding the table for real.
3. If you take the most recent (not yet released) version from the trunk (version 5.3.3-SNAPSHOT) on SourceForge, you can avoid a breaks by using table.keepRowsTogether(0); where 0 is the index of the first row in the table.