Create Table in PDF Using Java

Table is an efficient way to display data, and in addition to creating a table in Word document introduced in my previous article, this article will now share how to create a table in PDF using the free library- Free Spire.PDF for Java. Import jar dependency (2 Methods)
● Download the free library and unzip it. Then add the Spire.Pdf.jar file to your project as dependency.
● Directly add the jar dependency to maven project by adding the following configurations to the pom.xml.

   com.e-iceblue e-iceblue http://repo.e-iceblue.com/nexus/content/groups/public/     e-iceblue spire.pdf.free 4.3.0   

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import com.spire.pdf.*; import com.spire.pdf.graphics.*; import com.spire.pdf.tables.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.geom.Point2D; public class CreateTable  public static void main(String[] args)  //Create a PdfDocument instance PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument(); //Set margins PdfUnitConvertor unitCvtr = new PdfUnitConvertor(); PdfMargins margin = new PdfMargins(); margin.setTop(unitCvtr.convertUnits(2.54f, PdfGraphicsUnit.Centimeter, PdfGraphicsUnit.Point)); margin.setBottom(margin.getTop()); margin.setLeft(unitCvtr.convertUnits(3.17f, PdfGraphicsUnit.Centimeter, PdfGraphicsUnit.Point)); margin.setRight(margin.getLeft()); //Add one page PdfPageBase page = doc.getPages().add(PdfPageSize.A4, margin); float y = 10; //Draw title PdfBrush brush1 = PdfBrushes.getBlack(); PdfTrueTypeFont font1 = new PdfTrueTypeFont(new Font("Arial",Font.BOLD ,16)); PdfStringFormat format1 = new PdfStringFormat(PdfTextAlignment.Center); page.getCanvas().drawString("Country List", font1, brush1, page.getCanvas().getClientSize().getWidth() / 2, y, format1); y = y + (float) font1.measureString("Country List", format1).getHeight(); y = y + 5; //Data source to create table String[] data = "Name;Capital;Continent;Area;Population", "Argentina;Buenos Aires;South America;2777815;32300003", "Bolivia;La Paz;South America;1098575;7300000", "Brazil;Brasilia;South America;8511196;150400000", "Canada;Ottawa;North America;9976147;26500000", "Chile;Santiago;South America;756943;13200000", "Colombia;Bagota;South America;1138907;33000000", "Cuba;Havana;North America;114524;10600000", "Ecuador;Quito;South America;455502;10600000", "El Salvador;San Salvador;North America;20865;5300000", "Guyana;Georgetown;South America;214969;800000", "Jamaica;Kingston;North America;11424;2500000", "Mexico;Mexico City;North America;1967180;88600000", "Nicaragua;Managua;North America;139000;3900000", "Paraguay;Asuncion;South America;406576;4660000", "Peru;Lima;South America;1285215;21600000", "United States of America;Washington;North America;9363130;249200000", "Uruguay;Montevideo;South America;176140;3002000", "Venezuela;Caracas;South America;912047;19700000">; String[][] dataSource = new String[data.length][]; for (int i = 0; i  data.length; i++)  dataSource[i] = data[i].split("[;]", -1); > //Create a PdfTable instance and set data source PdfTable table = new PdfTable(); table.getStyle().setCellPadding(2); table.getStyle().setHeaderSource(PdfHeaderSource.Rows); table.getStyle().setHeaderRowCount(1); table.getStyle().setShowHeader(true); table.setDataSource(dataSource); //Draw table to the page PdfLayoutResult result = table.draw(page, new Point2D.Float(0, y)); y = y + (float) result.getBounds().getHeight() + 5; //Draw string below table PdfBrush brush2 = PdfBrushes.getGray(); PdfTrueTypeFont font2 = new PdfTrueTypeFont(new Font("Arial", 0,9)); page.getCanvas().drawString(String.format("* %1$s countries in the list.", data.length - 1), font2, brush2, 5, y); //Save the file doc.saveToFile("output/Table.pdf"); > >