Set Character Spacing : Character « PDF « Java Tutorial

1. Java Tutorial
2. PDF
3. Character

import java.awt.Color;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfTemplate;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfTextArray;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Document document = new Document();
      PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(
          document,
          new FileOutputStream("2.pdf"));
      document.open();
      String text = "java2s";
      PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
      BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA,
          BaseFont.WINANSI, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
      cb.beginText();
      cb.moveText(36, 806);
      cb.setFontAndSize(bf, 24);
      cb.moveTextWithLeading(0, -36);
      cb.showText(text);
      cb.newlineText();
      
      PdfTextArray array = new PdfTextArray("J");
      array.add(120);
      array.add("a");
      array.add(120);
      array.add("v");
      array.add(95);
      array.add("a2s");
      cb.showText(array);
      cb.setWordSpacing(0);
      cb.setCharacterSpacing(0);
      cb.endText();
    document.close();
  }
}