/* * This class is part of the book "iText in Action - 2nd Edition" * written by Bruno Lowagie (ISBN: 9781935182610) * For more info, go to: http://itextpdf.com/examples/ * This example only works with the AGPL version of iText. */ package part3.chapter11; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Font; import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.BaseFont; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.ColumnText; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; public class RightToLeftExample { /** The resulting PDF file. */ public static final String RESULT = "results/part3/chapter11/right_to_left.pdf"; /** A movie title. */ public static final String MOVIE = "\u05d4\u05d0\u05e1\u05d5\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05e9\u05dc \u05e0\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4"; /** * Creates a PDF document. * @param filename the path to the new PDF document * @throws DocumentException * @throws IOException * @throws DocumentException * @throws IOException */ public void createPdf(String filename) throws IOException, DocumentException { // step 1 Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4); // step 2 PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(filename)); // step 3 document.open(); // step 4 BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont( "c:/windows/fonts/arial.ttf", BaseFont.IDENTITY_H, true); Font font = new Font(bf, 14); document.add(new Paragraph("Movie title: Nina's Tragedies")); document.add(new Paragraph("directed by Savi Gabizon")); ColumnText column = new ColumnText(writer.getDirectContent()); column.setSimpleColumn(36, 770, 569, 36); column.setRunDirection(PdfWriter.RUN_DIRECTION_RTL); column.addElement(new Paragraph(MOVIE, font)); column.go(); // step 5 document.close(); } /** * Main method. * * @param args no arguments needed * @throws DocumentException * @throws IOException */ public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { new RightToLeftExample().createPdf(RESULT); } }