Yes, it seems a weird question, but I was not able to render a colored text in PDFBox.
Usually the code for generating text looks like that:
//create some document and page...
PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
//defined some font
PDFont helveticaRegular = PDType1Font.HELVETICA;
//content stream for writing the text
PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
contentStream.beginText();
contentStream.setFont(helveticaRegular, 16);
contentStream.setStrokingColor(1f,0.5f,0.2f);
contentStream.newLineAtOffset(64, page.getMediaBox().getUpperRightY() - 64);
contentStream.showText("The hopefully colored text");
contentStream.endText();
//closing the stream
contentStream.close();
[...] //code for saving and closing the document. Nothing special
Interestingly the setStrokingColor is the only method accepting colors on the stream. So I thought this is the way to color something in PDFBox.
BUT: I'm not getting any color to the text. So I guess this is a method for other types of content.
Does anybody know how to achieve a colored text in PDFBox?
You use
contentStream.setStrokingColor(1f,0.5f,0.2f);
But in PDFs text by default is not drawn by stroking a path but by filling it. Thus, you should try
contentStream.setNonStrokingColor(1f,0.5f,0.2f);
instead.
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