Working with fonts and text - Java

Adding text to the document is quite easy. The most basic unit of text is the Chunk, which is simply a “chunk” of text that must have a consistent appearance. Here, we create a simple Chunk:

Chunk boo = new Chunk("Boo!");

Content must be manually added to the page:

doc.Add(boo);

We can stylize the text if we need to. Below, we make the text bold and big:

boo.Font.SetStyle(Font.BOLD);

boo.Font.Size = 72;

As you can see, the Font property, which is of the Font type, represents the text's font. Above, we make it bold and give it a size of 72 points. To set the style, we can either pass an appropriate integer value (these values can be found in Font, like Font.Bold), or we can pass a string to achieve the same effect:

boo.Font.SetStyle("bold");

Fonts can also be created and passed into the constructor when creating a Chunk:

Font small = new Font(Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 5);

Chunk smallText = new Chunk("This is small.", small);

Above, we create a font by specifying the font family (Times Roman) and a size (five points). However, we can specify several more properties in the constructor, such as the font style and the color. Below, we create a red, italicized font:

Font redItalic = new Font(Font.HELVETICA, Font.DEFAULTSIZE,

 Font.ITALIC, Color.RED);

Fonts can also be quickly and easily created using the GetFont method of the FontFactory class:

Chunk hey = new Chunk("Hey.", FontFactory.GetFont("Courier", 12, Font.ITALIC));

There's also a Phrase class, which is a bit higher level than the Chunk class, but is created similarly:

Phrase p = new Phrase("This is a phrase.");