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package com.lowagie.examples.general.faq;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import com.lowagie.text.Chunk;
import com.lowagie.text.LwgDocument;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
/**
* Demonstrates the use of newPage.
* @author blowagie
*/
public class NewPage {
/**
* Creates a PDF document with different pages.
* @param args no arguments needed here
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("Using newPage()");
// step 1: creation of a document-object
LwgDocument document = new LwgDocument();
try {
// step 2:
// we create a writer that listens to the document
// and directs a PDF-stream to a file
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("NewPage.pdf"));
// step 3: we open the document
document.open();
// step 4:
document.add(new Paragraph("This is the first page."));
document.newPage();
document.add(new Paragraph("This is a new page"));
document.newPage();
document.newPage();
document.add(new Paragraph("We invoked new page twice, yet there was no blank page added. Between the second page and this one. This is normal behaviour."));
document.newPage();
writer.setPageEmpty(false);
document.newPage();
document.add(new Paragraph("We told the writer the page wasn't empty."));
document.newPage();
document.add(Chunk.NEWLINE);
document.newPage();
document.add(new Paragraph("You can also add something invisible if you want a blank page."));
document.add(Chunk.NEXTPAGE);
document.add(new Paragraph("Using Chunk.NEXTPAGE also jumps to the next page"));
}
catch(DocumentException de) {
System.err.println(de.getMessage());
}
catch(IOException ioe) {
System.err.println(ioe.getMessage());
}
// step 5: we close the document
document.close();
}
}