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  • October 10, 2025
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gogopotter90
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Hallo , 

How to Color the first column  at table in PDF ?

I used the PDFPageFormatter but  I faced a problem that i want to color the first column at table in  PDF output, which contains the attribute names,that i have created a table by pdf page formatter

Could someone advise me on how to color the first column?

 

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Best answer by crystalatsafe

Hi ​@gogopotter90 

This process is somewhat complicated, but one approach is to find the lowest X value of a table to determine which cells are in the first column, and then apply colouring to those cells.
I have attached a sample workspace that does this. 
I hope this helps! 

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  • October 16, 2025

Hi ​@gogopotter90 

This process is somewhat complicated, but one approach is to find the lowest X value of a table to determine which cells are in the first column, and then apply colouring to those cells.
I have attached a sample workspace that does this. 
I hope this helps! 

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