PDF-Creator

This is a program used to render a PDF file using markdown type language. The markdown is entered in the commands.txt file and then when the program is ran, it will generate a pdf file sample.pdf based on what was entered in commands.txt

Running the program

To run the program, open the PDF-Creator folder in VSCode, then navigate to src -> main -> java -> pdfcreatorpackage -> App.java and run this java file after entering the markdown in the commands.txt file.

Available commands:

• .paragraph: starts a new paragraph
• .newline: adds a line break
• .fill: sets indentation to fill for paragraphs, where the last character of a line must end at the end of the margin (except for the last line of a paragraph)
• .nofill: the default, sets the formatter to regular formatting
• .regular: resets the font to the normal font
• .italic: sets the font to italic
• .bold: sets the font to bold
• .large: sets the font to size 24
• .normal: sets the font back to default size
• .indent : indents the specified amount (each unit is probably about the length of the string “WWWW”)

Example:

.bold
This text is bold. 
.italic
This text is bold and italic.
.paragraph
.regular
.indent +2
This indented text is regular
.indent -1
This less indented text is regular

Result:

This text is bold. This text is bold and italic

            This indented text is regular

      This non indented text is regular

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Other general rules:

• Changing indent or fill automatically creates a new paragraph.
• Indent values are accumulative, not absolute
• All lines that start with a period "." are assumed to be a command. If you want to start your sentence with a period, you can do so by entering a backslash before the period "\."

Pagination is automatically added in the PDF file. (Page X of Y in the top right corner)