iText; nowadays iText is a commercial library, the latest version is not for free anymore (a fork of an older version remains under MIT license: OpenPDF) FOP; I worked a lot with FOP. It’s fairly resource intensive (Java > XML > XSLT > PDF) and complex PDFs become a nightmare ( may result in XSLTs … Read more
You’re using PageSize.A4_LANDSCAPE, a variable that was introduced by a contributor and that should have never been added to the main release. Please use PageSize.A4.rotate() instead. It’s not clear what you want to achieve with the lines: document.left(100f); document.top(150f); Those are getters, not setters. It looks as if you’re assuming that PDF is similar to … Read more
If you want to change the contents of an existing PDF file and add extra content such as watermarks, pagenumbers, extra headers, PdfStamper is the object you need. I have successfully used the following code to insert an image into an existing pdf file to a given absolute position: using System.IO; using iTextSharp.text; using iTextSharp.text.pdf; … Read more
There seems to be some sense that wanting to use or continue with the LGPL version is a personal affront to Bruno. How about the fact that folks adopted the library because it was LGPL in the first place? Now a change in the package names and licenses is supposed to be ok and we … Read more
Give JasperReports a try. Use iReport to create the .jrxml files. JapserReports can handle complex layouts. For those parts of the report based on different queries have a look at using subreports embedded into the main report. Just like @Adrian Smith’s solution this approach will separate the report layout editing from the data sourcing.
iText has more than one way of doing this. The PdfStamper class is one option. But I find the easiest method is to create a new PDF document then import individual pages from the existing document into the new PDF. // Create output PDF Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4); PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, outputStream); document.open(); … Read more
I found the answer: Instead of the 2nd Method, add more files to the first array of input files. public static void CombineMultiplePDFs(string[] fileNames, string outFile) { // step 1: creation of a document-object Document document = new Document(); //create newFileStream object which will be disposed at the end using (FileStream newFileStream = new FileStream(outFile, … Read more
I came across the same question a few weeks ago and this is the result from what I found. This method does a quick dump of HTML to a PDF. The document will most likely need some format tweaking. private MemoryStream createPDF(string html) { MemoryStream msOutput = new MemoryStream(); TextReader reader = new StringReader(html); // … Read more
You can set the page size to a rotated A4. E.g. (assuming PDF, but should apply regardless): iTextSharp.text.Document doc; // …initialize ‘doc’… // Set the page size doc.SetPageSize(iTextSharp.text.PageSize.A4.Rotate()); I’ve done this with PDF without trouble, haven’t tried it with other doc types.
You can trigger a newline by inserting Chunk.NEWLINE into your document. Here’s an example. public static void main(String args[]) { try { // create a new document Document document = new Document( PageSize.A4, 20, 20, 20, 20 ); PdfWriter.getInstance( document, new FileOutputStream( “HelloWorld.pdf” ) ); document.open(); document.add( new Paragraph( “Hello, World!” ) ); document.add( new … Read more