Drawing a Grid
Example written in the context of the question Click How to create a PDF with a Cartesian grid?
grid
JAVA
JAVA
package sandbox.objects;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import sandbox.WrapToTest;
@WrapToTest
public class Grid {
public static final String DEST = "results/objects/grid.pdf";
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
File file = new File(DEST);
file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
new Grid().createPdf(DEST);
}
public void createPdf(String dest) throws FileNotFoundException, DocumentException {
Rectangle pagesize = PageSize.LETTER;
Document document = new Document(pagesize);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
document.open();
PdfContentByte canvas = writer.getDirectContent();
for (float x = 0; x < pagesize.getWidth(); ) {
for (float y = 0; y < pagesize.getHeight(); ) {
canvas.circle(x, y, 1f);
y += 72f;
}
x += 72f;
}
canvas.fill();
document.close();
}
}