Create PDF With iText Java Tutorial

Create PDF With iText Tutorial describes about How to Generate pdf documents using Java and iText.

Creating PDF with java in enterprise applications is quite common these days.

iText library in java had been written by Paulo Soares, Bruno Lowagie and others.

itext is a free and open-source tool available in java for manipulating and creating PDF files in stand alone java applications and java web applications as well. 

Itext allows developers looking to boost web applications with dynamic PDF content  manipulation.

pom.xml

You need to have following dependencies

<dependency>
	<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
	<artifactId>kernel</artifactId>
	<version>7.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
	<artifactId>io</artifactId>
	<version>7.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
	<artifactId>layout</artifactId>
	<version>7.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
	<artifactId>forms</artifactId>
	<version>7.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
	<artifactId>pdfa</artifactId>
	<version>7.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
	<artifactId>pdftest</artifactId>
	<version>7.0.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
	<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
	<version>1.7.18</version>
</dependency>

Create PDF With iText

import java.util.Date;

import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfDocument;
import com.itextpdf.kernel.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.itextpdf.layout.Document;
import com.itextpdf.layout.element.Paragraph;

// Java PDF Generation With Itext

public class CreatePDFWithItext{

 
public static void main(String[] args) {
   
try {
     
PdfDocument pdfDoc = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter("C:\\example.pdf"));
      Document document =
new Document(pdfDoc);
      document.add
(new Paragraph("Hello World"));
      document.add
(new Paragraph("http://www.javatips.net/"));
      document.add
(new Paragraph(new Date().toString()));
      document.close
();
   
} catch (Exception e) {
     
e.printStackTrace();
   
}
  }
}
Output
Create PDF With iText








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