Create Simple PDF using iText

iText provides flexible ways for creation and manipulation of PDF files. We will start with steps on how to create simple PDF using itext with some examples.

Setup

Setup can be done by adding Maven dependency.
Add the below dependency into your pom.xml

<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>

<artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>

</dependency>

Or you can directly download the latest itext jar and add it to your class path. Download from maven – iText download

Example on how to create simple PDF using iText

Important classes used are
a) com.itextpdf.text.Document
b) com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter

Create a object of the Document class. Create a PdfWriter instance and use the document for writing the pdf to a specified location. For writing into the Pdf, you need to first open the document and then use the add() method. Once writing is done close() the document.

package com.kscodes.examples.itext;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;

import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;

import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class SimplePdf {

public static void main(String args[]) {

// Create a Document object

Document document = new Document();

try {

// Create a PdfWriter instance and use the document to write the pdf

// to a specified location

PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("K:\\Kscodes\\pdf\\itext-sample.pdf"));

// open the document

document.open();

// Add elements to the document

document.add(new Paragraph("This is a Simple example of iText"));

// close the document

document.close();

System.out.println("PDF created at the location !!!");

} catch (Exception e) {

System.out.println("Exception occured :: " + e);

}

Output

Create Simple PDF using iText

In our next few posts we will see some more examples on iText.

References:

1. iText developers guide