iText 5 PDF - List Alignment Example

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Maven Dependency



 com.itextpdf
 itextpdf
 5.5.11

ListAlignment.java

package com.javatutorialcorner.itextpdf;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Element;
import com.itextpdf.text.List;
import com.itextpdf.text.ListItem;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
 

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
 

public class ListAlignment {
 
   public static final String DEST = "C:/JTC/ListAlignment.pdf";
 
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
            DocumentException {
        File file = new File(DEST);
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        new ListAlignment().createPdf(DEST);
    }
 
    public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        Document document = new Document();
        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
        document.open();
        String text = "test 1 2 3 ";
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
            text = text + text;
        }
        List list = new List(List.UNORDERED);
        ListItem item = new ListItem(text);
        item.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);
        list.add(item);
        text = "a b c align ";
        for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
            text = text + text;
        }
        item = new ListItem(text);
        item.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);
        list.add(item);
        text = "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ";
        for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
            text = text + text;
        }
        item = new ListItem(text);
        item.setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);
        list.add(item);
        document.add(list);
        document.close();
    }
}

Output