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Example in answer to the question Click How to create a document with unequal page sizes?


unequalpages

JAVA

JAVA
/**
 * This example is written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question:
 * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23117200/itext-create-document-with-unequal-page-sizes
 */
package sandbox.objects;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.Rectangle;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import sandbox.WrapToTest;

@WrapToTest
public class UnequalPages {

    public static final String DEST = "results/objects/unequal_pages.pdf";
    
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
            DocumentException {
        File file = new File(DEST);
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        new UnequalPages().createPdf(DEST);
    }
    
    public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        Document document = new Document();
        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
        Rectangle one = new Rectangle(70,140);
        Rectangle two = new Rectangle(700,400);
        document.setPageSize(one);
        document.setMargins(2, 2, 2, 2);
        document.open();
        Paragraph p = new Paragraph("Hi");
        document.add(p);
        document.setPageSize(two);
        document.setMargins(20, 20, 20, 20);
        document.newPage();
        document.add(p);
        document.close();
    }
}


changemargin

JAVA

JAVA
/*
 * Example written by Bruno Lowagie in answer to the following question:
 * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30328489/itextsharp-change-margins-no-document-setpagesize
 */
package sandbox.objects;

import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import sandbox.WrapToTest;

/**
 * @author iText
 */
@WrapToTest
public class ChangeMargin {
    
    public static final String DEST = "results/objects/change_margin.pdf";
    
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException,
            DocumentException {
        File file = new File(DEST);
        file.getParentFile().mkdirs();
        new ChangeMargin().createPdf(DEST);
    }
    
    
    
    public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException, DocumentException {
        float left = 30;
        float right = 30;
        float top = 60;
        float bottom = 0;
        Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, left, right, top, bottom);
        PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(dest));
        document.open();
        document.setMargins(left, right, 0, bottom);
        for (int i = 0; i < 60; i++) {
            document.add(new Paragraph("This is a test"));
        }
        document.close();
    }
}
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