The usual way we create PDFs is via XML/XSL into a .fo file which is then
"compiled" into the pdf.
Example of the code
public File generatePDFFromXml(File xslFile,File xmlFile) {
BufferedOutputStream out = null;
File tempFile = null;
fopFactory.setStrictValidation(false);
DefaultConfigurationBuilder cfgBuilder = new
DefaultConfigurationBuilder();
Configuration cfg = cfgBuilder.buildFromFile(new
File("fopconfig.xml"));
fopFactory.setUserConfig(cfg);
tempFile = File.createTempFile("W2P", ".pdf");
out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(tempFile));
FOUserAgent useragent= fopFactory.newFOUserAgent();
useragent.setOutputFile(tempFile);
useragent.setTargetResolution(300);
System.out.println("Creating New Fop");
long timer = System.currentTimeMillis();
Fop fop = fopFactory.newFop(MimeConstants.MIME_PDF,useragent,out);
System.out.println("Creation of Fop took
"+(System.currentTimeMillis()-timer)+" Miliseconds");
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Source xslt = new StreamSource(xslFile);
Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(xslt);
Source src = new StreamSource(xmlFile);
Result res = new SAXResult(fop.getDefaultHandler());
System.out.println("Creating PDF");
timer = System.currentTimeMillis();
transformer.transform(src, res);
System.out.println("Creation of PDF took
"+(System.currentTimeMillis()-timer)+" Miliseconds");
out.flush();
out.close();
}
The XSL and xml can do most anything but a snippet is below of the xsl
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="propdetails">
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
<fo:block-container position="absolute" top="0mm" left="0mm"
width="210mm" height="49mm" >
<xsl:call-template name="property_header">
<xsl:with-param
name="width">214</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param
name="height">53</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</fo:block-container>
<fo:block-container position="absolute" top="56mm" left="11mm"
width="188mm" height="113mm" overflow="hidden">
<fo:block>
<xsl:variable name="picurl">
<xsl:value-of
select="/document/data/body/descendant-or-self::*[@id='large']/@src"/>
</xsl:variable>
<fo:external-graphic width="188mm"
height="113mm" content-width="188mm" content-height="auto"
scaling-method="resample-any-method" src="{$picurl}" />
</fo:block>
</fo:block-container>
<fo:block-container position="absolute" top="173mm" left="10mm"
width="57mm" height="22mm">
<fo:block>
<fo:instream-foreign-object>
<svg:svg
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";
version="1.1" width="57mm"
height="22mm" id="roundedbox" viewbox="0 0 57 22"> <g>
<rect x="0mm" y="0mm" width="57mm"
height="22mm" rx="5" ry="5" style="stroke: white; fill: #005924;"/>
</g>
</svg:svg>
</fo:instream-foreign-object>
</fo:block>
Hope this helps.
Kindest regards
Theresa Forster
Senior Software Developer
-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Preißer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 07 February 2012 12:20
To: [email protected]
Subject: Generating a PDF by drawing to PDFDocumentGraphics2D
Hi all,
I'm sorry if this is the wrong place for my question.
I was seaching for a way to dynamically generate a PDF in Java code by drawing
to a Graphics2D object. When I googled this, I found Apache FOP 1.0 which has a
org.apache.fop.svg.PDFDocumentGraphics2D class (derived from Graphics2D), which
seems to support dynamically generating a PDF by drawing to it.
E.g., I use code like this to generate a PDF and write it to an OutputStream
(using Java 1.7):
PDFDocumentGraphics2D g = new PDFDocumentGraphics2D(false, out, 842, 595);
g.setGraphicContext(new org.apache.xmlgraphics.java2d.GraphicContext());
g.setFont(new Font(Font.SANS_SERIF, Font.PLAIN, 12));
g.drawLine(10, 10, 100, 100);
g.drawString("Hi!", 30, 30);
g.nextPage(); // switch to next page
g.drawString("This is the 2nd page.", 30, 30);
g.finish();
g.dispose();
This seems to be working really well, using the integrated PDF Fonts.
However, I now have the problem that these integrated fonts seem not to support
Unicode characters, e.g. if I use
g.drawString("\u263a", 30, 30);
then the Character is substituted by a "#" and a warning is printed:
Feb 07, 2012 1:10:11 PM org.apache.fop.fonts.Typeface warnMissingGlyph
Warnung: Glyph 9786 (0x263a, smileface) not available in font Helvetica
So, I was searching for a way to embed a TTF font in the PDF. However, I wasn't
successful finding information about it, as it seems the FOP documentation and
examples are only about XSL-FO (which I don't know much about, as I only need
to generate PDFs by drawing to a Graphics2D), but using a PDFDocumentGraphics2D
seems not to be well-documented. So I'm not sure if this is even an intended
way to use FOP, or if there are other/better solutions to generate a PDF by
drawing to a Graphics2D object in Java.
My questions are:
Is using FOP for generating a PDF by drawing to a Graphics2D a recommended way?
Is it possible to embed TTF fonts when drawing to a PDFDocumentGraphics2D
object? If yes, how?
Thanks!
Best Regards,
Konstantin Preißer
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