how to place a table in pdf with a itext - javafx

Question

public static void writeChartToPDF(int width, int height, String fileName) {
PdfWriter writer = null;
Document document = new Document();
try {
writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(
fileName));
document.open();
JFreeChart c= generateBarChart0();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
float wid = PageSize.A4.getWidth();
float heigh = PageSize.A4.getHeight() / 2;
PdfTemplate bar = cb.createTemplate(width, height);
Graphics2D g2d1 = new PdfGraphics2D(bar,width, height, new DefaultFontMapper());
Rectangle2D r2d1 = new Rectangle2D.Double(0, 0, width, height);
System.out.println("check 5");
c.draw(g2d1, r2d1);
g2d1.dispose();
cb.addTemplate(bar, 0, heigh);
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3); // 3 columns.
PdfPCell cell1 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 1"));
PdfPCell cell2 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 2"));
PdfPCell cell3 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 3"));
table.addCell(cell1);
table.addCell(cell2);
table.addCell(cell3);
document.add(table);
document.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
document.close();
}
what am i missing here..? i want it to appear as table in the 1st followed by a bar chart. i have a nearly 5 charts and 5 table and i want it to appear in a new page. so each page has a table and a chart.

Answer 1

You're a developer, which means that you should be able to understand the answers that are given. For instance: when you asked jfreechart & itext for adding many number of barcharts, I answered that you can wrap a PdfTemplate inside an image:
Image img = Image.getInstance(bar);
document.add(img);
I'm not really happy that you didn't accept that answer, because it was a really good answer. I'm even less happy that you didn't follow that advice.
In a comment to your current question, I asked you to make a choice: either add the chart and the table at absolute positions, or use iText to do the layout. By wrapping the template inside an Image, adding that image with document.add() and then adding the table, you could solve your problem.
A solution that may even be more elegant would be to wrap the
for (PdfTemplate chart : charts) {
PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(3); // 3 columns.
table.setWidthPercentage(100);
PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell(Image.getInstance(chart), true);
cell.setColspan(3);
table.addCell(cell);
PdfPCell cell1 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 1"));
PdfPCell cell2 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 2"));
PdfPCell cell3 = new PdfPCell(new Paragraph("Cell 3"));
table.addCell(cell1);
table.addCell(cell2);
table.addCell(cell3);
document.add(table);
document.newPage();
}
In this example charts could be a list of PdfTemplate instances.