Hi All,
We are using iText with success in our web application, but now need to
include an image in the resulting PDF.
We are using XML to create the report to allow division of labour, but have
hit a snag - to include the image it seem straightfoward enough to use the
image tag, but how can we resolve the image file from within our war file?
For example, if we say:
<image url="/path/to/foo.jpg"/>
it will resolve this path from the working directory of the application
server (Tomcat in our case). Since the war is exploded in a randomly-named
temp directory, there's no way we can know this path in advance.
I suppose we could use an http link? But this would need a full path as
well, and it would be nice not to have to put the server name in there (it
could be dev, staging, production, etc.). Plus it just seems wrong to pull
the image back through HTTP...
Is there any way to resolve the image in our servlet using
Image.getInstance() and then pass that in to iText somehow, with some sort
of image tag in the XML that acts as the placeholder for where it should be
positioned? Also seems a bit kludgy though..
Sorry if this is has been covered, but I can't find a reference to this
problem in the documentation nor mailing-list archives. I don't really
believe we are the first to encounter this problem?
Thanks in advance for all help and/or tips...
Cheers,
Ossie
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