Java tutorial
import java.io.FileOutputStream; import com.lowagie.text.Document; import com.lowagie.text.Element; import com.lowagie.text.Phrase; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ColumnText; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; public class ColumnAlignmentPDF { public static void main(String[] args) { Document document = new Document(); try { PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("ColumnAlignmentPDF.pdf")); document.open(); PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb); ct.setSimpleColumn(60, 300, 100, 300 + 28 * 15, 15, Element.ALIGN_CENTER); ct.addText(new Phrase("col \n")); ct.addText(new Phrase("cool \n")); ct.addText(new Phrase("coool\n")); ct.addText(new Phrase("cooool\n")); ct.go(); } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println(e.getMessage()); } document.close(); } }