Setup iText for project & Hello World

We will be using eclipse for all iText tutorials in this site. You can check out Java, Beginner Guide, Install Java JDK, IDE & Build your first Java Program - Hello World for tutorial on how to install and write a simple program on eclipse.

First download iText library from http://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/ . Extract the downloaded file and find the iText library, the time of this tutorial writing was iText version 1.4.8 so the library name will be itext-1.4.8.jar.

Next create a eclipse project and add itext-1.4.8.jar to the project as shown below:

• We assume you know how to create eclipse project, else please read the Beginnner Guide listed above. Now create a project name iText Tutorial.
• Add a lib folder into the project if you not already done. On the eclipse Package Explorer, right click the iText Tutorial project name-> New -> Folder. Then name the new folder as "lib". Copy and paste itext-1.4.8.jar into the created lib folder. When this is done, the package explorer should be structure as shown below:
• Although the itext-1.4.8.jar are now in the project lib folder, you still need to explicitly add it to the project. Select the project name iText Tutorial and press alt+enter to bring up the Properties dialog. Select Libraries Tab and click Add JARs.. button, on the pop-up JAR Selection dialog, expand the project iText Tutorial and select itext-1.4.8.jar then click OK button. When you added the library correctly, you can see the itext-1.4.8.jar is under the project root instead of lib folder as shown below:
  

import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

public class ITextHelloWorld {
	
	public ITextHelloWorld() throws Exception{
		Document document = new Document();
		PdfWriter.getInstance(document, 
			new FileOutputStream("HelloWorld.pdf"));
		document.open();
		document.add(new Paragraph("Hello World"));
		document.close();
			
	}
	
	public static void main(String args[]){
		try{
			new ITextHelloWorld();
		}catch(Exception e){
			System.out.println(e);
		}
	}
}

           

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