I deleted the original posts, but someone asked about servlet "serving
up" pdf files.
I've done this.
A good Java library for creating pdf from text ( and splicing in more
complicated pdf files from elsewhere ) can be found at:
http://www.etymon.com/pj/
Its free and open source.
To keep things snappy I don't send the pdf file to the browser, I just
send the url to the pdf file. The servlet api has a
Response.sendredirct() that will move the browser there.
One word of caution, this function will not work with IE 5 and Acrobat
4. The engineers at microsoft told me that someone there goofed when
writing some code ( a port wasn't closed ).
With acrobat 3 this is not a problem.
I got around this by having the servlet dynamically generate a simple
HTML page with javascript on it that opens up the pdf url from the
browser side.
Steve
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