Java tutorial
import java.awt.Color; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import com.lowagie.text.Chunk; import com.lowagie.text.Document; import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException; import com.lowagie.text.Font; import com.lowagie.text.FontFactory; import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; public class PdfContentByteColor { public static void main(String[] args) { Document document = new Document(); try { PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("PdfContentByteColor.pdf")); document.open(); BaseFont bf = FontFactory.getFont(FontFactory.COURIER).getCalculatedBaseFont(false); PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); cb.beginText(); cb.setColorFill(new Color(0x00, 0xFF, 0x00)); cb.setFontAndSize(bf, 12); cb.showTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_CENTER, "Grass is green", 50, 70, 0); cb.endText(); } catch (Exception ioe) { System.err.println(ioe.getMessage()); } document.close(); } }