Java tutorial
import java.awt.Color; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import com.lowagie.text.Document; import com.lowagie.text.Font; import com.lowagie.text.Image; import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.CMYKColor; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfPatternPainter; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfShading; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfShadingPattern; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfSpotColor; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.ShadingColor; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.SpotColor; 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(); PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent(); PdfSpotColor psc_cmyk = new PdfSpotColor("iTextSpotColorCMYK", 0.25f, new CMYKColor(0.3f, .9f, .3f, .1f)); SpotColor sc_cmyk = new SpotColor(psc_cmyk); Image img = Image.getInstance("dog.jpg"); PdfPatternPainter img_pattern = cb.createPattern(img.scaledWidth(), img.scaledHeight(), img.scaledWidth(), img.scaledHeight()); img_pattern.addImage(img, img.scaledWidth(), 0f, 0f, img.scaledHeight(), 0f, 0f); img_pattern.setPatternMatrix(1f, 0f, 0f, 1f, 60f, 60f); PdfShading axial = PdfShading.simpleAxial(writer, 36, 716, 396, 788, Color.orange, Color.blue); PdfShadingPattern axialPattern = new PdfShadingPattern(axial); ShadingColor axialColor = new ShadingColor(axialPattern); document.add(new Paragraph("This is a paragraph painted using a shading pattern", new Font(Font.HELVETICA, 24, Font.BOLD, axialColor))); document.close(); } }