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Thread: Creating a pdf without 3rd library

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    Question Creating a pdf without 3rd library

    Hi,
    I want create a simple pdf-document (a headline and a paragraph), but without a 3rd library like iText or other.
    It can also be patched together text-based.

    Does anyone have a tip or code-snippet?

    Thanks in advance.


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    Default Re: Creating a pdf without 3rd library

    a) get to know the PDF file spec very intimately and/or b) use the source code of an open source project (eg PDFBox) as a guide.

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    Default Re: Creating a pdf without 3rd library

    Quote Originally Posted by Pischti View Post
    Hi,
    I want create a simple pdf-document (a headline and a paragraph), but without a 3rd library like iText or other.
    It can also be patched together text-based.

    Does anyone have a tip or code-snippet?

    Thanks in advance.
    Creating a PDF document without any library is almost impossible. I suggest that you try Free Spire.PDF for Java. The following code snippet shows you how to create a simple PDF document containing a headline and several paragraphs. The paragrahs are read from a .txt file.

    import com.spire.pdf.graphics.*;
     
    import java.awt.*;
    import java.awt.geom.Point2D;
    import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
    import java.io.*;
     
    public class CreatePdfDocument {
     
        public static void main(String[] args) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException  {
     
            //create a PdfDocument object
            PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
     
            //add a page
            PdfPageBase page = doc.getPages().add();
     
            //heading text
            String heading = "Java - Overview";
     
            //create solid brush objects
            PdfSolidBrush brush1 = new PdfSolidBrush(new PdfRGBColor(Color.BLUE));
            PdfSolidBrush brush2 = new PdfSolidBrush(new PdfRGBColor(Color.BLACK));
     
            //create true type font objects
            PdfTrueTypeFont font1= new PdfTrueTypeFont(new Font("Times New Roman",Font.PLAIN,20));
            PdfTrueTypeFont font2= new PdfTrueTypeFont(new Font("Arial Unicode MS",Font.PLAIN,12));
     
            //set the text alignment via PdfStringFormat class
            PdfStringFormat format1 = new PdfStringFormat();
            format1.setAlignment(PdfTextAlignment.Center);
     
            //draw heading on the center of the page
            page.getCanvas().drawString(heading, font1, brush1, new Point2D.Float((float)page.getActualBounds(true).getWidth()/2, 0),format1);
     
            //get body text from a .txt file
            String body = readFileToString("C:\\Users\\Administrator\\Desktop\\body.txt");
     
            //create a PdfTextWidget object
            PdfTextWidget widget = new PdfTextWidget(body, font2, brush2);
     
            //create a rectangle where the body text will be placed
            Rectangle2D.Float rect = new Rectangle2D.Float(0, 30, (float)page.getActualBounds(true).getWidth(),(float)page.getActualBounds(true).getHeight());
     
            //set the PdfLayoutType to Paginate to make the content paginated automatically
            PdfTextLayout layout = new PdfTextLayout();
            layout.setLayout(PdfLayoutType.Paginate);
     
            //draw body text on the page
            widget.draw(page, rect, layout);
     
            //save to file
            doc.saveToFile("output/CreatePdf.pdf");
        }
     
        //customize a function to read TXT file to String
        private static String readFileToString(String filepath) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
     
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            String s ="";
            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(filepath));
     
            while( (s = br.readLine()) != null) {
                sb.append(s + "\n");
            }
            br.close();
            String str = sb.toString();
            return str;
        }
    }
    Last edited by jacky; November 10th, 2020 at 03:20 AM.

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