PDFBox Working with Fonts

In PDFBox, there might be a need to add text with different font family and size. The PDFBox specification states that "The standard set of 14 fonts will always be available in working with PDF documents". In PDFBox, these set of 14 fonts are defined as constants in the PDType1Font class. A Font is loaded from a file by using PDType1Font API. PDFBox supports the following fonts-

Standard Font	Discription
PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN	Times regular
PDType1Font.TIMES_BOLD	Times bold
PDType1Font.TIMES_ITALIC	Times italic
PDType1Font.TIMES_BOLD_ITALIC	Times bold italic
PDType1Font.HELVETICA	Helvetica regular
PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD	Helvetica bold
PDType1Font.HELVETICA_OBLIQUE	Helvetica italic
PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD_OBLIQUE	Helvetica bold italic
PDType1Font.COURIER	Courier
PDType1Font.COURIER_BOLD	Courier bold
PDType1Font.COURIER_OBLIQUE	Courier italic
PDType1Font.COURIER_BOLD_OBLIQUE	Courier bold italic
PDType1Font.SYMBOL	Symbol Set
PDType1Font.ZAPF_DINGBATS	Dingbat Typeface

We can configured font for text by using setFont API available on Content Stream.

PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

contentStream.setFont( PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD, 28 );

Example

This example creates a new document and prints the text "Hello World!!!" using one of the PDF base Font.

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font;

public class WorkingWithFont {
	
	public static void main(String[] args)throws IOException {
				
	// Create a document and add a page to it
	PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
	PDPage page = new PDPage();
	document.addPage( page );
		
	// Create a new font object selecting one of the PDF base fonts
	PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;

	// Start a new content stream which will "hold" the to be created content
     PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

	// Define a text content stream using the selected font, and print the text
		contentStream.beginText();
		contentStream.setFont( font, 28 );
		contentStream.newLineAtOffset( 100, 700 );
		contentStream.showText( "Hello World !!!!" );
		contentStream.endText();
		
		System.out.println("Text Content is added in the PDF Document.");

		//  closed the content stream class.
		contentStream.close();

		// Save the results and ensure that the document is properly closed.
		document.save( "Hello World.pdf");
		document.close();
	}
}

Output:

After successful execution of the above program, open the PDF Document which shows the following output.