# PDF::SimpleTable **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 4, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-simpletable/116310 "2007-10-04T12:04:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neha-rohan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-simpletable/116310/1 "2007-10-04T12:04:15Z")
Is it possible to have a table inside another table in PDF. ---
**Author:** ![neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neha-rohan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-simpletable/116310/2 "2007-10-04T13:24:14Z")
On 10/4/07, Neha C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Is it possible to have a table inside another table in PDF. Not using PDF::SimpleTable. -austin ---
**Author:** ![neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neha-rohan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-simpletable/116310/3 "2007-10-04T13:29:55Z")
Austin Z. wrote: > On 10/4/07, Neha C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Is it possible to have a table inside another table in PDF. > > Not using PDF::SimpleTable. > > -austin then what can be another way of generating pdf in ruby and having a table inside another table. ---
**Author:** ![neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neha-rohan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-simpletable/116310/4 "2007-10-04T14:40:58Z")
On Oct 4, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Neha C. wrote: > – > Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/). You might consider scripting an app that is a page layout or design app which can write pdf or print to pdf. You’ll get more features. ---
**Author:** ![neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neha-rohan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-simpletable/116310/5 "2007-10-09T17:18:26Z")
Neha C. ha scritto: > then what can be another way of generating pdf in ruby and having a > table inside another table. Please see: - [http://deplate.sourceforge.net/](http://deplate.sourceforge.net/) - [http://dokkit.rubyforge.org/](http://dokkit.rubyforge.org/) (a new release will be soon available) With the two applications above you can get a pdf from a tex file. The tex file is generated from an emacs-wiki formatted source file. Hope this help, Andrea ---
**Author:** ![neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neha-rohan)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-simpletable/116310/6 "2007-10-09T20:52:23Z")
On 10/4/07, John J. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > You might consider scripting an app that is a page layout or design > app which can write pdf or print to pdf. You’ll get more features. I’ve had good results using ruby to generate lout [[http://lout.sourceforge.net/](http://lout.sourceforge.net/)] and then scripting the lout → ps → pdf toolchain with system calls. martin ---
**Author:** ![neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@neha-rohan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/neha-rohan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pdf-simpletable/116310/7 "2007-10-04T13:47:43Z")
On 10/4/07, Neha C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Austin Z. wrote: > > > On 10/4/07, Neha C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > Is it possible to have a table inside another table in PDF. > > > Not using PDF::SimpleTable. > > > then what can be another way of generating pdf in ruby and having a > > > table inside another table. Find a formatter that can do that. Tables aren’t a basic feature of PDFs. SimpleTable is a simplified way of looking at a table and drawing it on the page. (Layout in general isn’t a basic feature of PDFs. PDF documents are just canvases linked together. Any meaning is provided by the reader.) -austin