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This example show you how to use the com.itextpdf.text.Anchor class to create an external link in the PDF document. You can create an instance of Anchor with a phrase of string and set its reference, in this case a website URL, by calling the setReference() method of this object. package org.kodejava.itextpdf; import com.itextpdf.text.Anchor; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; […]
To set paragraph indentation in the iText Paragraph object we can use the setFirstLineIndent(), setIndentationLeft() and setIndentationRight(). These methods accept a float value as a parameter. The setFirstLineIndent() method set the first line indentation of a paragraph, while the setIndentationLeft() and setIndentationRight() methods set the left and the right indent of the paragraph. Let see […]
To set the alignment of a paragraph object we can use the Paragraph.setAlignment() method. We can pass constants such as Paragraph.ALIGN_LEFT, Paragraph.ALIGN_CENTER, Paragraph.ALIGN_RIGHTto the setAlignment() method. package org.kodejava.itextpdf; import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import...
To set the line spacing of a paragraph in iText can be done by passing the line space / leading argument in the Paragraph constructor. In the example below we set the line space to 32. We can also set the space between paragraph by calling the setSpacingBefore() and setSpacingAfter() methods of this object. package […]
The com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph class represent a paragraph in PDF document. The following example show you how to create a simple paragraph. First we create a Paragraph object and then add some texts into it using the Chunk object. package org.kodejava.itextpdf; import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import java.io.FileNotFoundEx...
This example shows how to customize the iText Phrase object. We can change the default line spacing of the Phrase object by passing a float parameter. We can also use the setLeading() method. We can also set the default font for the Phrase so that every Chunk added to this object will have the same […]
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