Following JAVA code will enable us to write PDF files using JAVA API.
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| package com.milind.word.to.pdf; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.BadElementException; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.BaseColor; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.Document; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.Element; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.Font; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.List; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; | |
| import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; | |
| import java.io.File; | |
| import java.io.FileNotFoundException; | |
| import java.io.FileOutputStream; | |
| import java.io.IOException; | |
| /** | |
| * | |
| * @author milind | |
| */ | |
| public class WritePdf { | |
| public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, BadElementException, IOException { | |
| try { | |
| File file = new File("D:\\mypdf.pdf"); | |
| FileOutputStream fileout = new FileOutputStream(file); | |
| Document document = new Document(); | |
| PdfWriter.getInstance(document, fileout); | |
| document.addAuthor("Milind"); | |
| document.addTitle("My PDF File"); | |
| document.open(); | |
| Chunk chunk = new Chunk("Milind Jagre"); | |
| Font font = new Font(); | |
| font.setStyle(Font.UNDERLINE); | |
| font.setStyle(Font.ITALIC); | |
| chunk.setFont(font); | |
| chunk.setBackground(BaseColor.CYAN); | |
| document.add(chunk); | |
| Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph(); | |
| paragraph.add("Hello World"); | |
| paragraph.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_CENTER); | |
| document.add(paragraph); | |
| List list = new List(true, 15); | |
| list.add("Bangalore"); | |
| list.add("Nagpur"); | |
| document.add(list); | |
| document.close(); | |
| } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { | |
| e.printStackTrace(); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| } |
And following is the pom.xml I am using for achieving this.
| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
| <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> | |
| <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> | |
| <groupId>com.milind</groupId> | |
| <artifactId>word-to-pdf</artifactId> | |
| <version>1.0</version> | |
| <packaging>jar</packaging> | |
| <properties> | |
| <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> | |
| <maven.compiler.source>1.7</maven.compiler.source> | |
| <maven.compiler.target>1.7</maven.compiler.target> | |
| </properties> | |
| <dependencies> | |
| <dependency> | |
| <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId> | |
| <artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId> | |
| <version>4.2.2</version> | |
| </dependency> | |
| </dependencies> | |
| </project> |
Following image will show the way my pdf file looks.
