/** * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question: *http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27046352/how-to-generate-table-of-figures-dot-leaders-in-a-pdfpcell-for-the-last-line-of */ package sandbox.tables; import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Element; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPCell; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.draw.DottedLineSeparator; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class DottedLineLeader { public static final String DEST = "results/tables/dotted_line_leader.pdf"; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new DottedLineLeader().createPdf(DEST); } public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException { Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest)); document.open(); PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3); table.setWidthPercentage(50); table.setWidths(new int[]{1, 3, 1}); Chunk leader = new Chunk(new DottedLineSeparator()); Paragraph p; table.addCell(getCell(new Paragraph("fig 1"), Element.ALIGN_TOP)); p = new Paragraph("Title text"); p.add(leader); table.addCell(getCell(p, Element.ALIGN_TOP)); table.addCell(getCell(new Paragraph("2"), Element.ALIGN_BOTTOM)); table.addCell(getCell(new Paragraph("fig 2"), Element.ALIGN_TOP)); p = new Paragraph("This is a longer title text that wraps"); p.add(leader); table.addCell(getCell(p, Element.ALIGN_TOP)); table.addCell(getCell(new Paragraph("55"), Element.ALIGN_BOTTOM)); table.addCell(getCell(new Paragraph("fig 3"), Element.ALIGN_TOP)); p = new Paragraph("Another title text"); p.add(leader); table.addCell(getCell(p, Element.ALIGN_TOP)); table.addCell(getCell(new Paragraph("89"), Element.ALIGN_BOTTOM)); document.add(table); document.close(); } public PdfPCell getCell(Paragraph p, int verticalAlignment) { PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(); cell.setVerticalAlignment(verticalAlignment); cell.setUseAscender(true); cell.setUseDescender(true); cell.addElement(p); return cell; } }