easytable

This is a (very) small project that builds upon Apache's PDFBox(>= 2.0.0) and should allow you to create tables in a fairly simple way. It emerged from the need in another project. Therefore it also may miss some crucial features. Nevertheless one can already:

• set font and font size on table level
• define single cells with bottom-, top-, left- and right-border width separatly
• define the background color on row or cell level
• define padding (top, bottom, left, right) on cell level
• define border color (on table, row or cell level)
• specify text alignment (right, left or center)

Thanks @Binghammer for implementing cell coloring and text center alignment!

I would say: it's OK, but don't expect too much ... ;-)

Example

// Define the table structure first
TableBuilder tableBuilder = new TableBuilder()
        .addColumnOfWidth(300)
        .addColumnOfWidth(120)
        .addColumnOfWidth(70)
        .setFontSize(8)
        .setFont(PDType1Font.HELVETICA);

// Header ...
tableBuilder.addRow(new RowBuilder()
        .add(Cell.withText("This is right aligned without a border").setHorizontalAlignment(RIGHT))
        .add(Cell.withText("And this is another cell"))
        .add(Cell.withText("Sum").setBackgroundColor(Color.ORANGE))
        .setBackgroundColor(Color.BLUE)
        .build());

// ... and some cells
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    tableBuilder.addRow(new RowBuilder()
            .add(Cell.withText(i).withAllBorders())
            .add(Cell.withText(i * i).withAllBorders())
            .add(Cell.withText(i + (i * i)).withAllBorders())
            .setBackgroundColor(i % 2 == 0 ? Color.LIGHT_GRAY : Color.WHITE)
            .build());
}

final PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
final PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
document.addPage(page);

final PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

// Define the starting point
final float startY = page.getMediaBox().getHeight() - 50;
final int startX = 50;

// Draw!
(new TableDrawer(contentStream, tableBuilder.build(), startX, startY)).draw();
contentStream.close();

document.save("target/sampleWithColorsAndBorders.pdf");
document.close();

This should produce a whole PDF document with a table that looks like this one:

If you run the tests with mvn clean test there also three PDF documents created which you can find in the target folder. The corresponding sources (in order to understand how to use the code) can be found in the test package.

Installation

First check it out and install it locally:

mvn clean install

Define this in your pom.xml in order to use it:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.vandeseer.pdfbox</groupId>
    <artifactId>easytable</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.9</version>
</dependency>

Q&A

Does it work with Java < 8?

Nope. You will need Java 8.

Does it work with PDFBox 1.8.9?

Well, Using it with PDFBox 1.8.9 requires you to check out version 0.0.7 (tagged as such in git) and install it locally, i.e.:

git checkout v0.0.7
mvn clean install

Note though that the API will have changed in the meantime ...