/** * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25808367/rotate-multiline-text-with-columntext-itextsharp */ package sandbox.stamper; import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException; import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph; import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.ColumnText; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfReader; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfStamper; import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfTemplate; import java.io.File; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import sandbox.WrapToTest; @WrapToTest public class AddRotatedTemplate { public static final String SRC = "resources/pdfs/hello.pdf"; public static final String DEST = "results/stamper/hello_template.pdf"; public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException { File file = new File(DEST); file.getParentFile().mkdirs(); new AddRotatedTemplate().manipulatePdf(SRC, DEST); } public void manipulatePdf(String src, String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException { PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src); PdfStamper stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream(dest)); PdfContentByte cb = stamper.getOverContent(1); PdfTemplate xobject = cb.createTemplate(80, 120); ColumnText column = new ColumnText(xobject); column.setSimpleColumn(new Rectangle(80, 120)); column.addElement(new Paragraph("Some long text that needs to be distributed over several lines.")); column.go(); cb.addTemplate(xobject, 36, 600); double angle = Math.PI / 4; cb.addTemplate(xobject, (float)Math.cos(angle), -(float)Math.sin(angle), (float)Math.cos(angle), (float)Math.sin(angle), 150, 600); stamper.close(); reader.close(); } }