Hi Balder,
I most certainly agree with that. It was not our expected scenario before.
:) Thanks for all the info and guide you've provided. I'll check on them and
see what I can come up with. Will keep in touch once I have update on it.
Your help is very much appreciated!
Sincerely,
Mark
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Balder VC <li...@redlab.be> wrote:
> Pasted content from word, ( /me shivers ). Word aint the best thing for
> producing html :)
> it's word then that uses <font> tag. Maybe word can be configured to
> output pt instead of px and in, and to produce fixed width tables, or not to
> nest tables. But I fear for it.
>
> I think your best option is to implement a TagProcessor for font, or add it
> to the TagFactory so that it maps to something existing.
> You can't use the default settings for that. see
> http://demo.itextsupport.com/xmlworker/itextdoc/flatsite.html#itextdoc-menu-7for
> an example of how to setup the whole thing yourself. (This documentation
> is still a work in progress but certainly good enough to get you started )
>
> From
>
> Tags.getHtmlTagProcessorFactory()
>
>
> You get a DefaultTagProcessorFactory there you can map font to
> http://api.itextpdf.com/xml/com/itextpdf/tool/xml/html/Span.html a thanks
> to
> http://api.itextpdf.com/xml/com/itextpdf/tool/xml/html/DefaultTagProcessorFactory.html#addProcessor(java.lang.String,%20com.itextpdf.tool.xml.html.TagProcessor)this
> way the text in the font tag will be in the PDF and handled as the span
> tag. Bear in mind, the attributes from the font tag won't be taken into
> account, the same counts for some of the attributes from the table tag. (
> Check the CSS Support section of the documentation to be sure )
> You could write your own TagProcessor and add your created Chunk or
> Paragraph to the ProcessObject.
>
> Normal output from CKEditor should work, in the demo we used TinyMCE, but
> we also noticed that HTML pasted from word usually ended up not like you
> would want.
> The initial intention of the XMLWorker was not transforming word documents
> (be it exported to HTML). We didn't think of Word HTML being a good HTML
> reference :) It's usually not even valid html.
>
> We based our self on the w3c spec of XHTML and bit HTML5 and that of course
> resulted in a more restrictive framework then internet browsers.
>
> Perhaps you can arrange some of the things by adding your own CSS file
> where you set certain css values yourself if they are not overridden by css
> properties added later.
>
>
> I hope I gave you some helpful directions and ideas
>
>
> Kind Regards
> Balder
>
>
> On 15/10/2011 16:04, Mark Ramos wrote:
>
> Thanks again Balder, The only challenge we had is that the input of all
> these html is from a CKEditor to make contents in liferay. Also, by using
> CKEditor, one of the scenarios/cases is to paste contents from a word
> document directly to CKEditor. Then when the content is rendered in html we
> have to export it in PDF. We also tried using flying-saucer which also uses
> iText 2.0.8 but there are items that are also not rendered properly. I
> appreciate giving your time to us.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Balder VC <li...@redlab.be> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A PDF is not a browser, while creating your HTML you should still bare in
>> mind that the end result will be a PDF.
>>
>> Couple tips:
>> It's better to write measures in points (pt). Then no conversion is done
>> by the XMLWorker.
>> It's a good idea to check the supported tags (in the documentation or
>> inside com.itextpdf.tool.xml.html.Tags there are the defaults listed).
>> The <font> tag, used in the htmlfile, is not supported, that is why among
>> others the 'Test' text is not there. You can easily write a TagProcessor
>> that does support the font tag as you see fit.
>> If I'm correct it is better to define a width for your tables, then the
>> XMLWorker does not have to try and fit text in it. Nesting tables is
>> possible, but it makes it harder for XMLWorker to fit tables on the page.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Balder
>>
>>
>> On 14/10/2011 8:33, Mark Ramos wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for the links Balder.
>>
>> I tried to render the enclosed html file to pdf and I did not get a good
>> result. Please check the attachments.
>>
>> I used this code snippet:
>>
>> Document document = new Document(PageSize.LETTER);
>> PdfWriter instance = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new
>> FileOutputStream("/home/mramos/html3.pdf"));
>> document.open();
>> FileReader br = new FileReader("/home/mramos/pdf_cfadmin2.html");
>> XMLWorkerHelper worker = XMLWorkerHelper.getInstance();
>> worker.parseXHtml(instance, document, br);
>> document.close();
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>>
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>>
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