Create PDF using PDF Clown API for Java

create-pdf-with-pdfclown-api.java

// Import PDF Clown core classes
import org.pdfclown.documents.Document;
import org.pdfclown.documents.Page;
import org.pdfclown.documents.contents.composition.PrimitiveComposer;
import org.pdfclown.documents.contents.fonts.StandardType1Font;
import org.pdfclown.files.File;

import java.awt.geom.Point2D;

public class CreateBasicPDF {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      // 1. Instantiate a new PDF file
      File pdfFile = new File();
      Document document = pdfFile.getDocument();
      
      // 2. Add a page to the document
      Page page = new Page(document);
      document.getPages().add(page);
      
      // 3. Create a composer to write content
      PrimitiveComposer composer = new PrimitiveComposer(page);
      
      // 4. Set font and write text
      composer.setFont(new StandardType1Font(document, StandardType1Font.FamilyEnum.TIMES_ROMAN, true, false), 24);
      composer.showText("Welcome to PDF Clown!", new Point2D.Double(50, 700));
      
      composer.setFont(new StandardType1Font(document, StandardType1Font.FamilyEnum.TIMES_ROMAN, false, false), 12);
      composer.showText("This PDF was generated programmatically using:", new Point2D.Double(50, 650));
      composer.showText("- Java " + System.getProperty("java.version"), new Point2D.Double(70, 630));
      composer.showText("- PDF Clown " + pdfFile.getVersion(), new Point2D.Double(70, 610));
      
      // 5. Flush the composer and save the file
      composer.flush();
      pdfFile.save("output.pdf");
      System.out.println("PDF created successfully!");
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}