Convert text file into PDF format in java

Text to PDF conversion:

For converting a text document into PDF format we have a java API called iText.

It is freely available on at http://www.lowagie.com/iText/download.html. . Some free Ebooks are also available in the same site.

Introduction:

iText is a library which creates PDF files dynamically.It helps a developer to extends his capability on their web server.It is very easy to integrate iText solution to servlet or jsp programme.

Example:

Here is a example to to convert a file called niaz.txt to PDF format when it is executed.

package pdf;

import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;

import com.lowagie.text.Image;

import com.lowagie.text.Document;

import com.lowagie.text.PageSize;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.FileReader;

class Main //class pdfopen

{

public static void main(String args[])

//main function

{

try //try statement

{

Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 50, 50, 50, 50);

PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream"D:\\ITextTest.pdf"));

document.open();

document.add(new Paragraph("hi hello how r u"));

FileReader fr = new FileReader("D:\\TRIANGLE\\niaz.txt");

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(fr);

String record=new String();

while(br.readLine()!=null)

{

document.add(new Paragraph(br.readLine()));

}

document.close();

System.out.println("closed");

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler " + "D:\\ITextTest.pdf");

}

catch (Exception e)

{

System.out.println("Error" + e.getMessage() );

e.printStackTrace();//print the error

}

}

}