I'd assume it's possible, but probably not the best choice... I would take a look at doing either a Jasper report or using Apache FOP. The choice will have to do with the nature of the PDF you are trying to generate. Jasper is a reporting platform... Think of Crystal Reports, there is a report designer, you then back the report with data and render. Jasper uses iText to generate PDFs, and it will let you create more of a "document" than a bunch of code.
If your output will be hard to model in a traditional reporting platform, then take a look at Apache FOP. It's very complicated, but think of it this way - You start with XML modelling your data, then pass it through a transform that kicks out XSL-FO, then you have Apache FOP turn it into a PDF. I don't have any real experience with it, so I might be giving you bad information (and hope someone will correct me). But, in this scenario, you are generating XML which represents the data you are passing to the output. The transform is done using XSLT? Which is another standard. What you generate is an XSL-FO document. This document can be rendered as a PDF by FOP. Although it's a more complicated process than the first choice, it does add some flexibility since you can drop-in replace different components (the transformer, the FO-to-PDF converter, probably), plus, you can create other XSLTs that generate other output. With Jasper, you'll probably be locked into PDF, HTML and Excel (CSV). -Wes On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 4:43 PM, CRANFORD, CHRIS <chris.cranf...@setech.com> wrote: > Is it possible to extend the default ServletDispatcherResult to parse > the HTML output and pass the result content to the browser as a PDF > document? Or is there a better approach to doing this? What I want to > be able to do is to allow easy creation of PDF documents from HTML > content. Presently I am looking to use iText but this isn't a firm > choice and another option that may work better is possible. > > Chris > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > > -- Wes Wannemacher Head Engineer, WanTii, Inc. Need Training? Struts, Spring, Maven, Tomcat... Ask me for a quote! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org
