iText 5 PDF Chapter and Section

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Maven Dependency

    com.itextpdf
    itextpdf
    5.5.11

 

ChapterAndTitle.java

package com.javatutorialcorner.itextpdf;
import com.itextpdf.text.Chapter;
import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Font;
import com.itextpdf.text.FontFactory;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
 
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class ChapterAndTitle {
    public static final String DEST = "C:/JTC/ChapterAndTitle.pdf";
 
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        File file = new File(DEST);
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        new ChapterAndTitle().createPdf(DEST);
    }
 
    public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        Document document = new Document();
        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
        document.open();
        Font chapterFont = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 16, Font.BOLDITALIC);
        Font paragraphFont = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.HELVETICA, 12, Font.NORMAL);
        Chunk chunk = new Chunk("This is the title", chapterFont);
        Chapter chapter = new Chapter(new Paragraph(chunk), 1);
        chapter.setNumberDepth(0);
        chapter.add(new Paragraph("This is the paragraph", paragraphFont));
        document.add(chapter);
        document.close();
    }
}

Output

Reference : iText Website

iText iText5 Java PDF 5/27/2017 12:22:00 am