JFreePDF

Version 2.0.1, by David Gilbert, 6 November 2022.

(C)opyright 2013-2022, by David Gilbert. All rights reserved.

Overview

JFreePDF is a library module for the Java(tm) platform that allows you to create content in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) using the standard Java2D drawing API (Graphics2D). JFreePDF is light-weight, fast, and has no dependencies other than the Java runtime (11 or later). The home page for the project is:

https://github.com/jfree/jfreepdf

Getting Started

The Javadoc page for the PDFDocument class gives an example of typical usage.

Oracle provides tutorials for Java2D here:

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/2d/

There are some demonstration applications included in the JFree Demos project.

Include

JFreePDF is published to the Central Repository. You can include it in your projects with the following dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.jfree</groupId>
    <artifactId>org.jfree.pdf</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.1</version>
</dependency>

JFreePDF defines the module name org.jfree.pdf.

If you are using Java 8, an earlier version of this library (OrsonPDF) can be used instead:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.orsonpdf/orsonpdf -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.orsonpdf</groupId>
    <artifactId>orsonpdf</artifactId>
    <version>1.9</version>
</dependency>

Build

You can build JFreePDF from sources using Maven:

mvn clean install

Testing

JFreePDF is being tested using Graphics2D Tester and produces the output shown below.

Dual Licensing

JFreePDF is dual licensed. You can use JFreePDF under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) or later. If you prefer not to be bound by the terms of the GPLv3, an alternative license is available to JFree sponsors.

JFreePDF integrates the Ascii85OutputStream class written by Ben Upsavs and distributed freely under the (BSD-style) terms listed in the Ascii85OutputStream-license.txt file.

Change History

Version 2.0.1 (6 November 2022)

• fix various warnings
• update Maven plugin versions in pom.xml
• updated JUnit to version 5.9.1.

Version 2.0 (1 March 2020)

• converted to a Java module;
• renamed OrsonPDF to JFreePDF.