/** * Example written for JavaOne 2016. * Differences between iText 5 and iText 7 are discussed in the JavaOne talk * "Oops, I broke my API" by Raf Hens and Bruno Lowagie. * This is the iText 5 version of one of the examples. */ package javaone.edition16; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Element; import com.itextpdf.text.Font; import com.itextpdf.text.Font.FontFamily; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.ColumnText; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class Text2PdfColumns { public static final String TEXT = "resources/text/jekyll_hyde.txt"; public static final String DEST = "results/javaone/edition16/text2pdf_columns.pdf"; public static void main(String[] args) throws DocumentException, IOException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new Text2PdfColumns().createPdf(DEST); } public void createPdf(String dest) throws DocumentException, IOException { Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest)); document.open(); ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(writer.getDirectContent()); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(TEXT)); String line; Paragraph p; Font normal = new Font(FontFamily.TIMES_ROMAN, 12); Font bold = new Font(FontFamily.TIMES_ROMAN, 12, Font.BOLD); boolean title = true; while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { p = new Paragraph(line, title ? bold : normal); p.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED); title = line.isEmpty(); ct.addElement(p); } Rectangle[] columns = { new Rectangle(36, 36, 290, 806), new Rectangle(305, 36, 559, 806) }; int c = 0; int status = ColumnText.START_COLUMN; while (ColumnText.hasMoreText(status)) { ct.setSimpleColumn(columns[c]); status = ct.go(); if (++c == 2) { document.newPage(); c = 0; } } document.close(); } }