How to make PDF files in Java

How to make PDF files in Java

You are landed at the right place if you are looking to automate the process of PDF file creation programmatically. In this blog post, we will install this PDF file creator library that offers a rich stack of methods to create and manipulate PDF files. Therefore, please make sure that you have installed Java on your local machine to test this Java library. By the end of this guide, you should have learned how to make PDF files by writing a few lines of source code in Java language.

The following points shall be covered:

PDF file creator library installation

As far as the installation is concerned, it is easy and developer-friendly. Therefore, you can download the API or install it using the following Maven configurations.

<repository>
    <id>AsposeJavaAPI</id>
    <name>Aspose Java API</name>
    <url>https://repository.aspose.com/repo/</url>
</repository>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.aspose</groupId>
    <artifactId>aspose-pdf</artifactId>
    <classifier>jdk17</classifier>
</dependency>

How to make PDF files in Java

Once installation is done, you are ready to write a code snippet that creates PDF files by invoking methods exposed by this PDF file creator library.

You may follow the steps and the code snippet mentioned below:

  1. Initialize an instance of the Document class.
  2. Add an empty page to the created document by invoking the add method.
  3. Instantiate an object of the TextFragment class and call the getParagraphs().add method to add text to the new page.
  4. Save the PDF by invoking the save method.

Copy & paste the following code into your main file:

The output can be seen in the image below:

pdf file creator

Java PDF library - advanced options

This Java library provides enterprise-level features to configure your API calls and enables you to process PDF files programmatically. In this section, we will go through a few prominent methods such as saving a PDF file as a stream and opening the existing PDF file, and more.

The following are the steps:

  1. Create an object of the Document class and load the source PDF file.
  2. Get pages count by calling the getPages().size() method.
  3. Now, add a new empty page to the PDF document.
  4. Save the PDF document to a stream by calling the save method.

Copy & paste the following code into your main file:

Get a Free License

You can avail a free temporary license to try the API without evaluation limitations.

Summing up

To conclude, we can hope that you have learned how to make PDF files programmatically using a Java PDF library. In addition, you also have gone through some advanced features of this PDF file creator. So, you may visit the documentation to know about other features.

Moreover, we suggest you follow our Getting Started guide.

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How to create a PDF file in Java?

Initialize an instance of the Document class, add an empty page to the created document by invoking the add method, call the getParagraphs().add method to add text and save the PDF by invoking the save method.

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