iText 5 PDF Chunk - StandardDeviation Symbol Example

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Maven Dependency

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.itextpdf/itextpdf -->
<dependency>
    <groupid>com.itextpdf</groupid>
    <artifactid>itextpdf</artifactid>
    <version>5.5.11</version>
</dependency>
  

StandardDeviation.java

package com.javatutorialcorner.itextpdf;
 
import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Font;
import com.itextpdf.text.Font.FontFamily;
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 StandardDeviation {
  
    public static final String DEST = "C:/JTC/StandardDeviation.pdf";
  
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        File file = new File(DEST);
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        new StandardDeviation().createPdf(DEST);
    }
    public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        Document document = new Document();
        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
        document.open();
        document.add(new Paragraph("The standard deviation symbol doesn't exist in Helvetica."));
        Font symbol = new Font(FontFamily.SYMBOL);
        Paragraph p = new Paragraph("So we use the Symbol font: ");
        p.add(new Chunk("s", symbol));
        document.add(p);
        document.close();
    }
  
}