iText 7: Building Blocks
iText 7: Building Blocks
About the Book
This is the second tutorial in the iText 7 series. In the first tutorial, "iText 7: Jump-Start Tutorial", we discussed a series of examples that explained the core functionality of iText.
In this book, we'll focus on the high-level building blocks that were introduced in Chapter 1 of the "iText 7: Jump-Start Tutorial", titled "Introducing basic building blocks". In that chapter, we created PDFs using objects such as Paragraph, List, Image and Table, but we didn't go into detail.
This "iText 7: Building Blocks" tutorial is the extended version of that chapter. In this tutorial, you'll discover which building blocks are available and how they all relate to each other.
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Table of Contents
- Before we start: Overview of the classes and interfaces
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Chapter 1: Introducing the PdfFont class
- Creating a PdfFont object
- Embedding a font
- Choosing the appropriate encoding
- Font properties
- Reusing styles
- Summary
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Chapter 2: Working with the RootElement
- Using Canvas to add content inside a Rectangle
- Converting text to PDF with the Document class
- Changing the Document renderer
- Switching between different renderers
- Flushing the Document renderer
- Changing content that was previously added
- Adding a Page X of Y footer
- Adding text with showTextAligned
- Using iText 7 add-ons
- Improving the typography
- Summary
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Chapter 3: Using ILeafElement implementations
- Working with Tab elements
- Limitations of the Tab functionality
- Adding links
- Extra methods available in the Text class
- Introducing images
- Changing the position and width of an image
- Adding an image to an existing PDF
- Resizing and rotating an image
- Image types supported by iText
- Summary
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Chapter 4: Adding AbstractElement objects (part 1)
- Grouping elements with the Div class
- Drawing horizontal lines with the LineSeparator object
- Keeping content together
- Changing the leading of a Paragraph
- Creating a custom renderer
- Lists and list symbols
- Adding ListItem objects to a List
- Nested lists
- Summary
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Chapter 5: Adding AbstractElement objects (part 2)
- My first table
- Table and cell Alignment
- Row and cell height
- Cell margins and padding
- Table and cell borders
- Nesting tables
- Repeating headers and footers
- Images in tables
- Splitting cells versus keeping content together
- Table and cell renderers
- Tables and memory use
- Summary
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Chapter 6: Creating actions, destinations, and bookmarks
- URI actions
- Named actions
- GoTo actions
- Named destinations
- Remote GoTo actions
- JavaScript actions
- Chained actions
- Destinations
- Link annotations
- Outlines aka bookmarks
- Color and style of the outline elements.
- Summary
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Chapter 7: Handling events; setting viewer preferences and writer properties
- Implementing the IEventHandler interface
- Adding a background and text to every page
- Solving the “Page X of Y” problem
- Adding a transparent background image
- Insert and remove page events
- Page labels
- Page display and page mode
- Viewer preferences
- Printer preferences
- Open action and additional actions
- Writer properties
- Summary
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Appendix
- A: AbstractElement methods
- B: BlockElement methods
- C: RootElement methods
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