Make Paragraph and Set Alignment

In this example , we are going to explain how we can make paragraph and how we can gives various alignment. To make a paragraph we use Paragraph("Text") constructor . To gives alignment we use setAlignment(int alignment).

We can set the aligment of a Paragraph with the method setAlignment(int alignment). The alignment can be one of the following values:

Element.ALIGN_LEFT
Element.ALIGN_CENTER
Element.ALIGN_RIGHT
Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED

If you want the alignment to be justified, the space between the words can be stretched, as well as the space between the characters of a word. The default ratio of this word-char space is 2.5. You can change this ratio with setSpaceCharRatio. For instance, if you don't want the space between the characters of a word to be stretched, just do:

writer.setSpaceCharRatio(PdfWriter.NO_SPACE_CHAR_RATIO);

The code of the program is given below:


import java.io.FileOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

import com.lowagie.text.Document;

import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;

import com.lowagie.text.Element;

import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;

import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class ParagraphAttributes 

  {

  public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception 

  {

  System.out.println("The Paragraph object");

  Document document = new Document();

  PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new 

    FileOutputStream("ParagraphAttributes.pdf"));

  document.open();

  Paragraph[] p = new Paragraph[5];

  p[0] = new Paragraph("RoseIndia.net");

  p[1] = new Paragraph("RoseIndia.net");

  p[2] = new Paragraph("RoseIndia.net");

  p[3] = new Paragraph("RoseIndia.net");

  p[4] = new Paragraph("RoseIndia.net");

 for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)

  {

  p[i].setAlignment(Element.ALIGN_JUSTIFIED);

  document.add(p[i]);

  }

  document.close();

  }

}

The output of the program is given below:

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Make Paragraph and Set Alignment

Make Paragraph and Set Alignment

Make Paragraph and Set Alignment

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