How to write content into pdf use iText?

Question

Right now i use iText to generate a pdf automatically. And my problem is that when the content is really very large, i need to calculate the content's height and width, and then add new page... this is really very inconvinent.

so I wonder whether or not there is a method like: Document.add("a very very large article"); and after this , it will auto generate a pdf file ????

Thanks in advance !

In your program, wrap the lines of code which add the content in a for(int i = 0; i < 100; i++) loop and try generating the PDF. If things are set up properly, you will notice that iText has created a multi-page PDF. — Binil Thomas
– Binil Thomas, Commented Nov 8, 2009 at 9:05

Mark · Accepted Answer · 2009-11-09 15:05:43Z

The following creates a 9 page pdf without having to calculate height and width.

import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import com.lowagie.text.Document; import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException; import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { Document document = new Document(); try { PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("HelloWorld.pdf")); document.open(); String text = ""; for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++) { text += "test"; } document.add(new Paragraph(text)); } catch (DocumentException e) { System.err.println(e.getMessage()); } catch (IOException ex) { System.err.println(ex.getMessage()); } document.close(); } }

Salandur · Accepted Answer · 2009-10-23 14:06:24Z

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a new page will be generated automaticly, when the content of the current page is full.

answered Oct 23, 2009 at 14:06

Salandur

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