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In this tutorial, we will look at how to generate an invoice
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What is an invoice? An invoice is a document that contains Delete a Button after it is

information regarding a sale transaction like products, pressed in SwiftUI
quantities, prices, etc. which is issued by the seller to the Gradient Border in SwiftUI
buyer.
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Since we are creating the invoice as a PDF we will use an
Node.js
open-source Java library know as PDFBox.

Steps to get started with PDFBox:

1. Download the latest PDFBox JAR from

https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html.
2. Open eclipse and create a new Java project.
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3. Right-click on the project then go to Build path and then click

on Configure build path.
4. Go to libraries and then click on Add External JARs and
select the downloaded PDFBox JAR file.
5. Click on apply and close.

Creating the PDF

To create a PDF we use the PDDocument class from
PDFBox.

1.
2.
//Creating the PDF
PDDocument MyPDF = new PDDocument(); C# PDF
Library
Adding a blank page .NET applications edit, convert, render, print
PDF documents.
To add a blank page to our invoice PDF we will first use the
class PDPage to create a blank page and then use the E-ICEBLUE
addPage() method to add the blank page to our invoice PDF.

1. //Creating a Blank Page

2. PDPage newpage = new PDPage();
3. //Adding the blank page to our PDF
4. MyPDF.addPage(newpage);

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Adding text to the PDF

There are two ways of adding text to our invoice PDF. One is
by adding a single line and the other is by adding multiple
lines.

To add a single line of text we use the following steps:

1. Get the required page from the PDF using the

getPage() method. This method takes the index of the
page as the parameter.
1. //Getting the required Page
2. //0 index for the first page
3. PDPage mypage = MyPDF.getPage(0);

2. Initialize the content stream using the

PDPageContentStream class as shown.
1. //Initializing the content stream
2. PDPageContentStream cs = new PDPageContentS

3. Before we can write the text we have to use the

beginText() method and then set the position of the text
and its font using the methods newLineAtOffset() and
setFont() respectively.
1. cs.beginText();
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2. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 18);
3. cs.newLineAtOffset(150, 750);

4. To write the text into the PDF we use the showText()

method.
1. //String variable to store the text
2. String InvoiceTitle = new String("CodeSpeed
3. //Writing the text to the PDF Fie
4. cs.showText(InvoiceTitle);

5. Lastly, we have to end the text and close the content

stream using the methods endText() and close()
respectively.
1. //Ending the text
2. cs.endText();
3. //Closing the content stream
4. cs.close();

To add multiple lines of text we use the following steps:

1. Get the required page from the PDF using the

getPage() method. This method takes the index of the
page as the parameter.
1. //Getting the required Page
2. //0 index for the first page

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3. PDPage mypage = MyPDF.getPage(0);

2. Initialize the content stream using the

PDPageContentStream class as shown.
1. //Initializing the content stream
2. PDPageContentStream cs = new PDPageContentS

3. Before we can write the text we have to use the

beginText() method and then set the position of the text
and its font using the methods newLineAtOffset() and
setFont() respectively.
1. cs.beginText();
2. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 18);
3. cs.newLineAtOffset(150, 750);

4. Next, we have to set the leading text. we the method

setLeading() to specify how much to move down to get
the next line.
1. //Setting the leading line
2. cs.setLeading(15f);

5. Now we can start inserting multiple lines of text using

the methods showText() and newline().
1. cs.showText("Text Line 1");
2. cs.newLine();
3. cs.showText("Text Line 2");

6. Lastly, we have to end the text and close the content

stream using the methods endText() and close()
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respectively.
1. //Ending the text
2. cs.endText();
3. //Closing the content stream
4. cs.close();

Saving the PDF

To save the PDF we use the save() method and pass the
path (along with the PDF file name) to save the document as
a string value in the method parameter.

1. //Saving the PDF

2. MyPDF.save(String FilePath);

Invoice PDF generator

Now, let us look at an example code to generate a PDF
invoice using the above-mentioned classes and methods. In
this code, we are using a constructor to create a pdf with a
blank page. Next using the getdata() method we collect the
necessary information required like the customer details and

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the product details. To write the invoice we are using the

method WriteInvoice(). This method uses both single line and
multiple lines methods to write the text to the PDF invoice.

1. import java.io.IOException;
2. import java.util.ArrayList;
3. import java.util.List;
4. import java.util.Scanner;
5.
6. import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
7. import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
8. import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream
9. import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font;
10.
11. public class invoice {
12. PDDocument invc;
13. int n;
14. Integer total = 0;
15. Integer price;
16. String CustName;
17. String CustPh;
18. List<String> ProductName = new ArrayList<String>(
19. List<Integer> ProductPrice = new ArrayList<Intege
20. List<Integer> ProductQty = new ArrayList<Integer>
21. String InvoiceTitle = new String("CodeSpeedy Tech
22. String SubTitle = new String("Invoice");
23.
24. //Using the constructor to create a PDF with a bla
25. invoice() {
26. //Create Document
27. invc = new PDDocument();
28. //Create Blank Page

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29. PDPage newpage = new PDPage();

30. //Add the blank page
31. invc.addPage(newpage);
32. }
33.
34. //getdata() method is used to get the customer inf
35. void getdata() {
36. Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
37. System.out.println("Enter the Customer Name: ")
38. CustName = sc.nextLine();
39. System.out.println("Enter the Customer Phone Num
40. CustPh = sc.next();
41. System.out.println("Enter the Number of Product
42. n = sc.nextInt();
43. System.out.println();
44. for(int i=0; i<n; i++) {
45. System.out.println("Enter the Product Name: "
46. ProductName.add(sc.next());
47. System.out.println("Enter the Price of the Pro
48. ProductPrice.add(sc.nextInt());
49. System.out.println("Enter the Quantity of the
50. ProductQty.add(sc.nextInt());
51. System.out.println();
52. //Calculating the total amount
53. total = total + (ProductPrice.get(i)*ProductQt
54. }
55. }
56.
57. void WriteInvoice() {
58. //get the page
59. PDPage mypage = invc.getPage(0);
60. try {
61. //Prepare Content Stream

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62. PDPageContentStream cs = new PDPageContentStre

63.
64. //Writing Single Line text
65. //Writing the Invoice title
66. cs.beginText();
67. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 20);
68. cs.newLineAtOffset(140, 750);
69. cs.showText(InvoiceTitle);
70. cs.endText();
71.
72. cs.beginText();
73. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 18);
74. cs.newLineAtOffset(270, 690);
75. cs.showText(SubTitle);
76. cs.endText();
77.
78. //Writing Multiple Lines
79. //writing the customer details
80. cs.beginText();
81. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 14);
82. cs.setLeading(20f);
83. cs.newLineAtOffset(60, 610);
84. cs.showText("Customer Name: ");
85. cs.newLine();
86. cs.showText("Phone Number: ");
87. cs.endText();
88.
89. cs.beginText();
90. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 14);
91. cs.setLeading(20f);
92. cs.newLineAtOffset(170, 610);
93. cs.showText(CustName);
94. cs.newLine();

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95. cs.showText(CustPh);
96. cs.endText();
97.
98. cs.beginText();
99. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 14);
100. cs.newLineAtOffset(80, 540);
101. cs.showText("Product Name");
102. cs.endText();
103.
104. cs.beginText();
105. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 14);
106. cs.newLineAtOffset(200, 540);
107. cs.showText("Unit Price");
108. cs.endText();
109.
110. cs.beginText();
111. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 14);
112. cs.newLineAtOffset(310, 540);
113. cs.showText("Quantity");
114. cs.endText();
115.
116. cs.beginText();
117. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 14);
118. cs.newLineAtOffset(410, 540);
119. cs.showText("Price");
120. cs.endText();
121.
122. cs.beginText();
123. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 12);
124. cs.setLeading(20f);
125. cs.newLineAtOffset(80, 520);
126. for(int i =0; i<n; i++) {
127. cs.showText(ProductName.get(i));

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128. cs.newLine();
129. }
130. cs.endText();
131.
132. cs.beginText();
133. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 12);
134. cs.setLeading(20f);
135. cs.newLineAtOffset(200, 520);
136. for(int i =0; i<n; i++) {
137. cs.showText(ProductPrice.get(i).toString())
138. cs.newLine();
139. }
140. cs.endText();
141.
142. cs.beginText();
143. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 12);
144. cs.setLeading(20f);
145. cs.newLineAtOffset(310, 520);
146. for(int i =0; i<n; i++) {
147. cs.showText(ProductQty.get(i).toString());
148. cs.newLine();
149. }
150. cs.endText();
151.
152. cs.beginText();
153. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 12);
154. cs.setLeading(20f);
155. cs.newLineAtOffset(410, 520);
156. for(int i =0; i<n; i++) {
157. price = ProductPrice.get(i)*ProductQty.get(
158. cs.showText(price.toString());
159. cs.newLine();
160. }

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161. cs.endText();
162.
163. cs.beginText();
164. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 14);
165. cs.newLineAtOffset(310, (500-(20*n)));
166. cs.showText("Total: ");
167. cs.endText();
168.
169. cs.beginText();
170. cs.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 14);
171. //Calculating where total is to be written us
172. cs.newLineAtOffset(410, (500-(20*n)));
173. cs.showText(total.toString());
174. cs.endText();
175.
176. //Close the content stream
177. cs.close();
178. //Save the PDF
179. invc.save(String FilePath);
180.
181. } catch (IOException e) {
182. e.printStackTrace();
183. }
184. }
185.
186.
187. public static void main(String args[]) {
188. invoice i = new invoice();
189. i.getdata();
190. i.WriteInvoice();
191. System.out.println("Invoice Generated!");
192. }
193. }

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Output

Enter the Customer Name:

James
Enter the Customer Phone Number:
9849576899
Enter the Number of Products:
3

Enter the Product Name:

Product1
Enter the Price of the Product:
150
Enter the Quantity of the Product:
3

Enter the Product Name:

Product2
Enter the Price of the Product:
130
Enter the Quantity of the Product:
1

Enter the Product Name:

Product3
Enter the Price of the Product:
150
Enter the Quantity of the Product:
1

The invoice will look like this:

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One response to “How to generate PDF invoice using

Java”
1. Vineta says:
February 7, 2022 at 4:12 pm
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java/#comment-6838)
Hi! Thanks! It works and I will try to modify it for my needs. But the scanner
is never closed. Where should the sc.close() go?

Best regards,
Vineta

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