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package com.lowagie.examples.general;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.PageSize;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
/**
* Demonstrates the creating PDF in portrait/landscape.
* @author blowagie
*/
public class LandscapePortrait {
/**
* Creates a PDF document with pages in portrait/landscape.
* @param args no arguments needed here
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Documents in Landscape and Portrait format");
// step 1: creation of a document-object
Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4.rotate());
try {
// step 2:
// we create a writer that listens to the document
// and directs a PDF-stream to a file
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("LandscapePortrait.pdf"));
// step 3: we open the document
document.open();
// step 4: we add some content
document.add(new Paragraph("To create a document in landscape format, just make the height smaller than the width. For instance by rotating the PageSize Rectangle: PageSize.A4.rotate()"));
document.setPageSize(PageSize.A4);
document.newPage();
document.add(new Paragraph("This is portrait again"));
}
catch(DocumentException de) {
System.err.println(de.getMessage());
}
catch(IOException ioe) {
System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
}
// step 5: we close the document
document.close();
}
}