itext Page events (iText 5) versus Event handlers and Renderers (iText 7) Text2PdfPageEvents1.java (iText 7)

Example

Suppose that you have the following text file: jekyll_hyde.txt

How do we convert it to a PDF that looks like this:

Note the page numbers at the bottom of each page. These are added using an IEventHandler implementation:

protected class Footer implements IEventHandler {

    @Override
    public void handleEvent(Event event) {
        PdfDocumentEvent docEvent = (PdfDocumentEvent) event;
        PdfDocument pdf = docEvent.getDocument();
        PdfPage page = docEvent.getPage();
        Rectangle pageSize = page.getPageSize();
        PdfCanvas pdfCanvas = new PdfCanvas(
            page.getLastContentStream(), page.getResources(), pdf);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(pdfCanvas, pdf, pageSize);
        float x = (pageSize.getLeft() + pageSize.getRight()) / 2;
        float y = pageSize.getBottom() + 15;
        canvas.showTextAligned(
            String.valueOf(pdf.getPageNumber(page)),
            x, y, TextAlignment.CENTER);
    }
}

We can reuse the Text2Pdf.java (iText 7) example with only two minor changes:

public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException {
    PdfDocument pdf = new PdfDocument(new PdfWriter(dest));
    pdf.addEventHandler(PdfDocumentEvent.END_PAGE, new Footer());
    Document document = new Document(pdf)
        .setTextAlignment(TextAlignment.JUSTIFIED);
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(TEXT));
    String line;
    PdfFont normal = PdfFontFactory.createFont(FontConstants.TIMES_ROMAN);
    PdfFont bold = PdfFontFactory.createFont(FontConstants.TIMES_BOLD);
    boolean title = true;
    Border border = new SolidBorder(Color.BLUE, 1);
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
        document.add(new Paragraph(line)
            .setFont(title ? bold : normal)
            .setBorder(title ? border : Border.NO_BORDER));
        title = line.isEmpty();
    }
    document.close();
}

We add an event handler that will trigger the handleEvent() method of the Footer class every time a page ends. We also define a border for the Paragraph objects that are used for a title.

Source: developers.itextpdf.com and the iText 7: Building Blocks tutorial.