iText in Action 2nd Edition

The NewPage example is part of the book iText in Action (ISBN 9781935182610).

It's a small standalone application. You can use this example for inspiration, but please buy the book if there's something you don't understand about the example. Read Chapter 5 for more info.

Chapter 5: Table, cell, and page events

Keywords for this example: Blank page, New page

If you want this example to work, you need the following jars: iText.jar

part1.chapter05.NewPage

If you compile and execute this example, you'll get the following result:

new_page.pdf

You can download the full source code of NewPage, or read it here:

/*
 * This class is part of the book "iText in Action - 2nd Edition"
 * written by Bruno Lowagie (ISBN: 9781935182610)
 * For more info, go to: http://itextpdf.com/examples/
 * This example only works with the AGPL version of iText.
 */
 
package part1.chapter05;
 
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
 
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
 
public class NewPage {
 
    /** Path to the resulting PDF file. */
    public static final String RESULT
        = "results/part1/chapter05/new_page.pdf";
 
    /**
     * Main method creating the PDF.
     * @param    args    no arguments needed
     * @throws IOException 
     * @throws DocumentException 
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
    	// step 1
        Document document = new Document();
        // step 2
        PdfWriter writer
            = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream(RESULT));
        // step 3
        document.open();
        // step 4
        document.add(new Paragraph("This page will NOT be followed by a blank page!"));
        document.newPage();
        // we don't add anything to this page: newPage() will be ignored
        document.newPage();
        document.add(new Paragraph("This page will be followed by a blank page!"));
        document.newPage();
        writer.setPageEmpty(false);
        document.newPage();
        document.add(new Paragraph("The previous page was a blank page!"));
        // step 5
        document.close();
 
    }
}