Java/PDF RTF/Column Alignment

Column Alignment in PDF document

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import java.io.FileOutputStream; import com.lowagie.text.Document; import com.lowagie.text.Element; import com.lowagie.text.Phrase; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ColumnText; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; public class ColumnAlignmentPDF {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
   Document document = new Document();
   try {
     PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
         new FileOutputStream("ColumnAlignmentPDF.pdf"));
     document.open();
     PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
     ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb);
     ct.setSimpleColumn(60, 300, 100, 300 + 28 * 15, 15, Element.ALIGN_CENTER);
     ct.addText(new Phrase("col \n"));
     ct.addText(new Phrase("cool \n"));
     ct.addText(new Phrase("coool\n"));
     ct.addText(new Phrase("cooool\n"));
     ct.go();
   } catch (Exception e) {
     System.err.println(e.getMessage());
   }
   document.close();
 }

}

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