itext Text to PDF: iText 5 versus iText 7 Text2Pdf.java (iText 5)
Example
Suppose that we have the following text file: jekyll_hyde.txt
How do we convert it to a PDF that looks like this:
When using iText 5, we'd use the following code:
public void createPdf(String dest)
throws DocumentException, IOException {
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
document.open();
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();
document.add(p);
}
document.close();
}
Source: developers.itextpdf.com
