Create a PDF with text and image using Free Java jPDFWriter library

// create document
PDFDocument pdfDoc = new PDFDocument ();
 
// create a PageFormat of standard letter size 
// with no margins
Paper p = new Paper ();
p.setSize(8.5 * 72, 11 * 72);
p.setImageableArea(0, 0, 8.5 * 72, 11 * 72);
PageFormat pf = new PageFormat ();
pf.setPaper(p);
 
// create a new page and add it to the PDF (important!)
PDFPage page = pdfDoc.createPage(pf);
pdfDoc.addPage(page);
 
// get graphics from the page
// this object is a Graphics2D Object and you can draw anything 
// you would draw on a Graphics2D
PDFGraphics g2d = (PDFGraphics) page.createGraphics();
 
// read an image (could be png, jpg, etc...)
BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File("C:\\photo.jpg"));
 
// draw the image on the page
g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);
 
// set the font and color
g2d.setFont (PDFGraphics.HELVETICA.deriveFont(24f));
g2d.setColor(Color.BLUE);
 
// draw text on the graphics object of the page
g2d.drawString("NEW TEXT", 200, 30);
 
// Save the document
pdfDoc.saveDocument ("C:\\output.pdf");

// create document PDFDocument pdfDoc = new PDFDocument (); // create a PageFormat of standard letter size // with no margins Paper p = new Paper (); p.setSize(8.5 * 72, 11 * 72); p.setImageableArea(0, 0, 8.5 * 72, 11 * 72); PageFormat pf = new PageFormat (); pf.setPaper(p); // create a new page and add it to the PDF (important!) PDFPage page = pdfDoc.createPage(pf); pdfDoc.addPage(page); // get graphics from the page // this object is a Graphics2D Object and you can draw anything // you would draw on a Graphics2D PDFGraphics g2d = (PDFGraphics) page.createGraphics(); // read an image (could be png, jpg, etc...) BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new File("C:\\photo.jpg")); // draw the image on the page g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null); // set the font and color g2d.setFont (PDFGraphics.HELVETICA.deriveFont(24f)); g2d.setColor(Color.BLUE); // draw text on the graphics object of the page g2d.drawString("NEW TEXT", 200, 30); // Save the document pdfDoc.saveDocument ("C:\\output.pdf");