https://davidhampgonsalves.com/tags/pdf/Recent content in pdf on David Hamp-GonsalvesHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USMon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://davidhampgonsalves.com/pdfs-using-itext-in-10-lines/Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://davidhampgonsalves.com/pdfs-using-itext-in-10-lines/There are some getting started tutorials for the iText library but I don’t think they really capture how fast and easy it is to get working PDF’s. Your standard servlet hello world example is 10 super simple lines. In your servlets doGet method: response.setContentType("application/pdf"); Document document = new Document(); try { PdfWriter.getInstance(document, response.getOutputStream()); document.open(); document.add(new Paragraph("Hello world")); document.close(); } catch (DocumentException e) { //handle the error } to break that down: First you need to let the browser know via the http response headers that the content is a pdf.