How to Convert Text to PDF Document in Java

on December 8, 2016

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Convert Text to PDF Document in Java

In this tutorial, I have attached Simple example about, How to Convert Text to PDF Document in Java. This example was done using ITextPDF Open Source API.

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Convert Text to PDF Document in Java

PDFGenerator.java

package com.dineshkrish.itextpdf;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.util.Scanner;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
/**
* 
* @author Dinesh Krishnan
*
*/
public class PDFGenerator {
// Method to Convert Text to PDF Document
public static void generatePDF(String text) {
// You can change the File Path accordingly
File file = new File("demo.pdf");
FileOutputStream fos = null;
try {
fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
// Defining Document Object
Document document = new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document, fos);
document.open();
// Adding the Paragraph
document.add(new Paragraph(text));
document.close();
System.out.println("PDF Generated Successfully...");
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (DocumentException e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter the text to generate pdf document : ");
String text = scanner.nextLine();
// Generating PDF Document
PDFGenerator.generatePDF(text);
scanner.close();
}
}