kris carlier wrote:
> Good morning/afternoon/evening,

It's good morning for me (I live in Belgium too).

> Situation: an existing web-application using server-side Java, generating
> HTML output that gets printed afterwards.

OK.

> Not identical on all types of browsers, so the conversion to PDF is (one
> of ?) the correct solution(s).

That's the reason why iText was created originally.

> AFAIU, the idea would be to describe the lay-out of the page(s) in i-text
> format, and later on, using a different writer, generating html or pdf.
> Don't hesitate to correct me when wrong.

Hmm... Generating HTML is possible with iText, but I doubt
it if many people use it. I wrote the HtmlWriter mainly for
debugging purposes.

> Question: is there something that can at least roughly convert existing
> html code to the i-text format?

http://itext.ugent.be/library/question.php?id=40

> Since itext describes a document, just as HTML up to a certain level,
 > there should be some similarities, that might be convert-able?

HTML is a poor format to describe layout, so there is a high risk
the resulting PDF will have a poor layout too. Don't expect too
much from it. Depending on the source you are using to generate
the HTML, it may be easier/more rewarding to create the PDF from
scratch (as you phrased it).
br,
Bruno

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