Working with Headings in PDF

Apply Numbering Style in Heading

Headings are the important parts of any document. Writers always try to make headings more prominent and meaningful to its readers. If there are more than one headings in a document, a writer has several options to organize these headings. One of the most common approach to organize headings is to write headings in Numbering Style.

Aspose.PDF for Java offers many pre-defined numbering styles. These pre-defined numbering styles are stored in an enumeration, NumberingStyle. The pre-defined values of NumberingStyle enumeration and their descriptions are given below:

Heading Types	Description
NumeralsArabic	Arab type,for example, 1,1.1,…
NumeralsRomanUppercase	Roman upper type, for example, I,I.II, …
NumeralsRomanLowercase	Roman lower type, for example, i,i.ii, …
LettersUppercase	English upper type, for example, A,A.B, …
LettersLowercase	English lower type, for example, a,a.b, …
The setStyle property of com.aspose.pdf.Heading class is used to set the numbering styles of the headings.

The source code, to obtain the output shown in the above figure, is given below in the example.

package com.aspose.pdf.examples;

import com.aspose.pdf.*;

public class ExampleHeading {
    // The path to the documents directory.
    private static String _dataDir = "/home/admin1/pdf-examples/Samples/";

    public static void ApplyNumberingStyleinHeading() {

        Document pdfDoc = new Document();
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().setWidth(612.0);
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().setHeight(792.0);
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().setMargin(new MarginInfo());
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().getMargin().setLeft(72);
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().getMargin().setRight(72);
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().getMargin().setTop(72);
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().getMargin().setBottom(72);

        Page pdfPage = pdfDoc.getPages().add();
        pdfPage.getPageInfo().setWidth(612.0);
        pdfPage.getPageInfo().setHeight(792.0);
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().setMargin(new MarginInfo());
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().getMargin().setLeft(72);
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().getMargin().setRight(72);
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().getMargin().setTop(72);
        pdfDoc.getPageInfo().getMargin().setBottom(72);

        FloatingBox floatBox = new FloatingBox();
        floatBox.setMargin(pdfPage.getPageInfo().getMargin());

        pdfPage.getParagraphs().add(floatBox);

        Heading heading = new Heading(1);
        heading.setInList(true);
        heading.setStartNumber(1);
        heading.setText("List 1");
        heading.setStyle(NumberingStyle.NumeralsRomanLowercase);
        heading.setAutoSequence(true);

        floatBox.getParagraphs().add(heading);
        Heading heading2 = new Heading(1);
        heading2.setInList(true);
        heading2.setStartNumber(13);
        heading2.setText("List 2");
        heading2.setStyle(NumberingStyle.NumeralsRomanLowercase);
        heading2.setAutoSequence(true);

        floatBox.getParagraphs().add(heading2);

        Heading heading3 = new Heading(2);
        heading3.setInList(true);
        heading3.setStartNumber(1);
        heading3.setText("the value, as of the effective date of the plan, of property to be distributed under the plan onaccount of each allowed");
        heading3.setStyle (NumberingStyle.LettersLowercase);
        heading3.setAutoSequence(true);

        floatBox.getParagraphs().add(heading3);
        _dataDir = _dataDir + "ApplyNumberStyle_out.pdf";
        pdfDoc.save(_dataDir);

    }

}