If you download the file through a browser? Does it work then? -- Grant Overby Senior Developer FloorSoft, Inc.
Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this, the machine will something something something." They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Yogesh <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried with that, it writes a blank PDF. Though, the file size and the > number of pages is correct (for the new written file) > > - Yogesh > > > > > On 5 November 2010 18:09, Grant Overby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You don't need pdfBox to do this. Below is some rough code that allows you >> to download a file and save it. >> >> URLConnection urlConnection = new URL("http://...";); >> InputStream in = urlConnection.getInputStream(); >> FileWriter out = new FileWriter("my.pdf"); >> int next = 0; >> while ( ( next = in.read() ) != -1 ) out.write(next); >> //close everything >> >> -- >> Grant Overby >> Senior Developer >> FloorSoft, Inc. >> >> Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They >> think, "By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the >> machine will run more effectively. By doing this, the machine will >> something >> something something." They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need >> to >> focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating >> the >> application of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves. -- >> Yukihiro Matsumoto >> >> >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Yogesh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have PDFs which I can access through URLs. I want to download and save >> it >> > to files. How can I go about it? >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > -Yogesh >> > >> > >
