/** * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28431148/itext-chapter-font-overrides-paragraph-font */ package sandbox.objects; import com.itextpdf.text.Chapter; import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Font; import com.itextpdf.text.FontFactory; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class ChapterAndTitle { public static final String DEST = "results/objects/chapter_title.pdf"; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new ChapterAndTitle().createPdf(DEST); } public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException { Document document = new Document(); PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest)); document.open(); Font chapterFont = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 16, Font.BOLDITALIC); Font paragraphFont = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 12, Font.NORMAL); Chunk chunk = new Chunk("This is the title", chapterFont); Chapter chapter = new Chapter(new Paragraph(chunk), 1); chapter.setNumberDepth(0); chapter.add(new Paragraph("This is the paragraph", paragraphFont)); document.add(chapter); document.close(); } }