http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:30:46 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:34:55 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 11.01 360 www.quickpdf.org/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2817 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/forum_images/QPDF_Forum_Title.png http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/ http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/need-to-manage-tables-in-pdf_topic2817_post11455.html#11455 Author: MidnightDragon
Subject: 2817
Posted: 27 Jan 14 at 7:34PM

I need to create a PDF that contains many tables. There are many people represented in the PDF, each has a header table of 5 rows and a content table of many rows (0-20,000). Each header table starts a new page. It is followed on that page by the  content table which overflows to additional pages as needed. The basics are working OK as a test.

The question I have is: Should I create one header table object and one content table object and reuse these for each person? To do so I would need to resize the tables each time they are being used. But I cannot find a way to set the number of rows except in the API call that creates a table and the call that appends more rows to the table. Without a way to resize the table I cannot see how to reuse these objects.

If I do not reuse the tables, but create new ones for each person in the PDF, can I at least dispose of the used tables? I don't see an API call for that either.

Any help with this overall strategy decision would be appreciated!



Edited by MidnightDragon - 28 Jan 14 at 2:01PM]]> Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:34:55 +0000 http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/need-to-manage-tables-in-pdf_topic2817_post11455.html#11455