I am producing a PDF document using PdfPTables to manage the several sections of data that I want to layout

I’m finding that I can’t control when tables start on (or split to) a new page very well

So I have something like

doc.open()

table = new PdfPTable(1)

addDetail_1(table)

doc.add(table)

doc.newline()

table = new PdfPTable(4)

addDetail_4(table)

doc.add(table)

doc.newline()

table = new PdfPTable(2)

addDetail_2(table)

doc.add(table)

etc

doc.close()

Basically I need my data laid out in various shaped tables with a few blank lines separating the tables

What I am getting is large amounts of page being unused as a table is NOT being started except on a new page

Any thoughts on how I can control this better

Many thanks