PDFBox Example

This example shows how to create a document using the Apache PDFBox library. The first page contains text in various styles, fonts and colors. The second page adds an image, draws a couple of lines, and a colored rectangle. While PDFBox can do many things with an existing PDF, its API is somewhat low-level. For example, it's not easily possible to add underline or strikethrough effects to text.

To get started, download the latest pdfbox-app-X.Y.Z.jar file; it contains everything in one convenient file.

The same code example for iText 2 (and its API-compatible replacement OpenPDF) and iText 5 can be found here.

import java.awt.Color; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDRectangle; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font; import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.image.PDImageXObject; public class Simple { public static void main (String[] args) throws Exception { String outputFileName = "Simple.pdf"; if (args.length > 0) outputFileName = args[0]; // Create a document and add a page to it PDDocument document = new PDDocument(); PDPage page1 = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4); // PDRectangle.LETTER and others are also possible PDRectangle rect = page1.getMediaBox(); // rect can be used to get the page width and height document.addPage(page1); // Create a new font object selecting one of the PDF base fonts PDFont fontPlain = PDType1Font.HELVETICA; PDFont fontBold = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD; PDFont fontItalic = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_OBLIQUE; PDFont fontMono = PDType1Font.COURIER; // Start a new content stream which will "hold" the content that's about to be created PDPageContentStream cos = new PDPageContentStream(document, page1); int line = 0; // Define a text content stream using the selected font, move the cursor and draw some text cos.beginText(); cos.setFont(fontPlain, 12); cos.newLineAtOffset(100, rect.getHeight() - 50*(++line)); cos.showText("Hello World"); cos.endText(); cos.beginText(); cos.setFont(fontItalic, 12); cos.newLineAtOffset(100, rect.getHeight() - 50*(++line)); cos.showText("Italic"); cos.endText(); cos.beginText(); cos.setFont(fontBold, 12); cos.newLineAtOffset(100, rect.getHeight() - 50*(++line)); cos.showText("Bold"); cos.endText(); cos.beginText(); cos.setFont(fontMono, 12); cos.setNonStrokingColor(Color.BLUE); cos.newLineAtOffset(100, rect.getHeight() - 50*(++line)); cos.showText("Monospaced blue"); cos.endText(); // Make sure that the content stream is closed: cos.close(); PDPage page2 = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4); document.addPage(page2); cos = new PDPageContentStream(document, page2); // draw a red box in the lower left hand corner cos.setNonStrokingColor(Color.RED); cos.addRect(10, 10, 100, 100); cos.fill(); // add two lines of different widths cos.setLineWidth(1); cos.moveTo(200, 250); cos.lineTo(400, 250); cos.closeAndStroke(); cos.setLineWidth(5); cos.moveTo(200, 300); cos.lineTo(400, 300); cos.closeAndStroke(); // add an image try { PDImageXObject ximage = PDImageXObject.createFromFile("Simple.jpg", document); float scale = 0.5f; // alter this value to set the image size cos.drawImage(ximage, 100, 400, ximage.getWidth()*scale, ximage.getHeight()*scale); } catch (IOException ioex) { System.out.println("No image for you"); } // close the content stream for page 2 cos.close(); // Save the results and ensure that the document is properly closed: document.save(outputFileName); document.close(); } }

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