What is the PDFBox equivalent to iText document.add(new Paragraph(string))

Question

I'm finally dumping iText for PDFBox. The requirements for the document to be created are trivial. With iText I've been using something like

for (Foo foo : foos) {
  document.add(new Paragraph(foo.getName()));
}

What is the PDFBox equivalent to that? Their Hello World example doesn't really give a clue.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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In addition there are projects such as https://github.com/dhorions/boxable who add table formatting to PDFBox.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Apr 27 '16 at 16:18

Maruan Sahyoun

Thanks, I was aware of all of them before I placed my question (SO suggests them). However, since those answers go a few years back I thought things might have changed for the better in the meantime. Sigh... – Marcel Stör Apr 27 '16 at 19:16
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@MarcelStör Adding layout'ing capabilities has been discussed by PDFBox committers, e.g. [here](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2618) on their Jira; unfortunately the opinion prevails that any less-than-perfect layouter is even less desirable than no layouter at all. – mkl Apr 28 '16 at 12:49

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