BE THE CODER > PDF > iTEXT Examples > Rotate layout Example

iText is a free and open source library for creating and manipulating PDF documents in Java. The following example shows rotating the screen layout of a PDF document.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/itext/tests/RotateRectange.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.itext.tests;



import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;



import com.itextpdf.text.Document;

import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;

import com.itextpdf.text.Image;

import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;

import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;

import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;

import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;



public class RotateRectange {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws DocumentException 

   * @throws IOException 

   * @throws MalformedURLException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, MalformedURLException, IOException {

    //Get rotated layout

    Rectangle layout = new Rectangle(PageSize.A4).rotate();

    Document document = new Document(layout); 

    PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("test9.pdf"));

    

    //Open the document before adding any content

    document.open();

    

    Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph("BE THE CODER");

    document.add(paragraph);

    

    //Get image to insert

    document.add(Image.getInstance("http://www.google.com/logos/2011/first_day_school-2011-hp.jpg"));

    document.add(Image.getInstance("C:\\jfkinaugural11-hp.jpg"));

    

    //Close the document

    document.close();

  }



}