Font Style
iText is a free and open source library for creating and manipulating
PDF documents in Java. The following example shows adding styled font to PDF document.
package com.bethecoder.tutorials.itext.tests;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import com.itextpdf.text.BaseColor;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Font;
import com.itextpdf.text.FontFactory;
import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
public class FontTests {
/**
* @param args
* @throws DocumentException
* @throws FileNotFoundException
*/
public static void main ( String [] args ) throws FileNotFoundException, DocumentException {
Document document = new Document ( PageSize.A4 ) ;
PdfWriter.getInstance ( document, new FileOutputStream ( "test4.pdf" )) ;
//Open the document before adding any content
document.open () ;
Font myFonColor = FontFactory.getFont ( FontFactory.TIMES_ROMAN, 24 , Font.BOLD, BaseColor.GREEN ) ;
Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph ( "BE THE CODER" , myFonColor ) ;
document.add ( paragraph ) ;
//Close the document
document.close () ;
}
}
It gives the following output,