iText Tutorial

What is iText? iText 7 Core is the open source Java library for creating and manipulating PDF documents: invoices, reports, e-books, forms and certificates. You build a document ...

Maven Dependency Gradle Dependency Hello PDF Always close() the Document — that finalizes and writes the file.

Paragraphs and Fonts Lists and Alignment For non-Latin scripts (Hindi, Chinese, Arabic) embed a Unicode TTF with PdfFontFactory.createFont(path, PdfEncodings.IDENTITY_H) — the 14 ...

Basic Table Header Rows and Column Widths Header cells repeat automatically on every page the table spans. Style headers with a background: cell.setBackgroundColor(new ...

Adding an Image Page Headers and Footers Add footers after the main content is written, once the page count is known.

Fillable Forms (AcroForm) Merging PDFs Watermarks are just semi-transparent text drawn under content with PdfCanvas + PdfExtGState.setFillOpacity(0.2f) .

Document Metadata Checklist License : iText 7 Core is AGPL — buy a commercial license for closed-source products, or evaluate OpenPDF/PDFBox for permissive licensing. Close ...