Simple PDF Library

A library which makes it easier to manually create a simple PDF document with Apache PDFBox.

Features

• HTML-like element model.
• Reversed Y-axis so a point (0, 0) is at the top-left corner of the page.
• Basic elements for drawing boxes, texts, tables and arrows.

Getting started

1. Include the library into your project.

   // build.gradle.kts
   repositories {
       maven("https://jitpack.io")
   }
   
   dependencies {
       implementation("com.github.vkuzel:Simple-PDF-Layout:2.1.2")
   }

2. Use it

   // Create page of size A4.
   Page page = Page.a4()
           // Create a text box of width 100 points on the page and align it to right.
           .addText(text -> text
                   .setTopLeft(100, 100)
                   .setWidth(100)
                   .setAlignment(Text.Alignment.RIGHT)
                   .setText("Hello World!"))
           // Add an arrow pointing to the the previous element (text).
           .addArrow(arrow -> arrow
                   .setStartElement(arrow.getPrevious()));
   
   // Render text to file.
   Document.renderPageToFile(page, "some-path.pdf");

Box model

Following image was rendered by BoxModelDocumentTest.generateBoxModelDocumentTest() method in this project.