Itext: Changing list symbol

Some times you may want to change the list item symbol. You can do this by using setListSymbol method of ListItem class.

public void setListSymbol(final Chunk symbol)

Following snippet adds custom symbol to the list item.

ListItem item = new ListItem(country);

item.setListSymbol(new Chunk(countriesNumber.get(counter++) +" . "));

list.add(item);

Following is the complete working application.

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.util.Arrays;

import com.itextpdf.text.Chunk;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.DocumentException;
import com.itextpdf.text.List;
import com.itextpdf.text.ListItem;
import com.itextpdf.text.Paragraph;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class ListEx {
 private static java.util.List<String> countries = Arrays.asList("Afghanistan", "Armenia", "Azerbaijan", "Bahrain",
   "Bangladesh", "Bhutan", "Brunei", "Cambodia", "China", "Cyprus", "Georgia", "India", "Indonesia", "Iran",
   "Iraq", "Israel", "Japan", "Jordan", "Kazakhstan", "Kuwait", "Kyrgyzstan", "Laos", "Lebanon", "Malaysia",
   "Maldives", "Mongolia", "Myanmar (Burma)", "Nepal", "North Korea", "Oman", "Pakistan", "Palestine",
   "Philippines", "Qatar", "Russia", "Saudi Arabia", "Singapore", "South Korea", "Sri Lanka", "Syria",
   "Taiwan", "Tajikistan", "Thailand", "Timor-Leste", "Turkey", "Turkmenistan", "United Arab Emirates (UAE)",
   "Uzbekistan", "Vietnam", "Yemen");

 private static java.util.List<Integer> countriesNumber = Arrays.asList(2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 2, 3, 5,
   7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 2, 3, 5,
   7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29);

 public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException, DocumentException {
  Document document = new Document();

  PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("countries.pdf"));

  List list = new List(List.UNORDERED, List.ALPHABETICAL);

  Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph("List Of Countries in Asia");

  int counter = 0;

  for (String country : countries) {
   ListItem item = new ListItem(country);
   item.setListSymbol(new Chunk(countriesNumber.get(counter++) + " . "));
   list.add(item);
  }

  document.open();
  document.add(paragraph);
  document.add(list);
  document.close();

 }
}

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