Java tutorial
import java.io.FileOutputStream; import com.lowagie.text.Document; import com.lowagie.text.Element; import com.lowagie.text.Font; import com.lowagie.text.Phrase; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.BaseFont; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ColumnText; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; public class AddingRectangleToColumnPDF { public static void main(String[] args) { Document document = new Document(); try { PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("AddingRectangleToColumnPDF.pdf")); document.open(); BaseFont bf = BaseFont.createFont(BaseFont.COURIER, BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED); Font font = new Font(bf, 11, Font.NORMAL); Phrase col1 = new Phrase(15, "col1", font); Phrase col2 = new Phrase(15, "col2", font); Phrase col3 = new Phrase(15, "col3", font); for (int i = 0; i < 40; i++) { col1.add("col 1\n"); col2.add("col 2\n"); col3.add("col 3\n"); } PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); ColumnText ct = new ColumnText(cb); ct.setSimpleColumn(col1, 60, 300, 100, 300 + 28 * 15, 15, Element.ALIGN_CENTER); ct.go(); ct.setSimpleColumn(col2, 105, 300, 150, 300 + 28 * 15, 15, Element.ALIGN_RIGHT); ct.go(); cb.rectangle(53, 295, 52, 8 + 28 * 15); cb.stroke(); ct.setSimpleColumn(col3, 160, 300, 500, 300 + 28 * 15, 15, Element.ALIGN_LEFT); ct.go(); } catch (Exception e) { System.err.println(e.getMessage()); } document.close(); } }