Wednesday 6 February 2013

Writing to a PDF file from JAVA

Use iText JAR for this

package ....

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Date;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class GeneratePDF {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            OutputStream file = new FileOutputStream(new File("D:\\Test.pdf"));

            Document document = new Document();
            PdfWriter.getInstance(document, file);

            document.open();
            document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World, iText"));
            document.add(new Paragraph(new Date().toString()));

            document.close();
            file.close();

        } catch (Exception e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

This link is important:

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-itext/table.html#width

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