> > That said, Apache PDFBox is very good when it comes to post-processing
> > PDFs. But for creating complex PDFs I think there are more suitable
tools.
> > I hope noone bites my head off for saying this. ;-)
No head biting, but I am happy to say
that I have been able to create
a fairly complex document in
both PDF and HTML, using my own
Java code, and OF COURSE the wonderful,
helpful, PDFBox software!
The raw data is XML, and everything
has been coded in Java.
Both of the output files have linkage
with many, many, cross-references embedded
in the document. With HTML, linkage is rather
simple, but it was particularly helpful to
have the power of PDFBox around to make
the process easier when creating the PDF
files.
Images are fairly easily processed for the
PDF output, but the final file is
probably going to be quite large in
size. Of course, for the HTML version of
the document, images will be available
in both thumbnail (inline) size and research
(i.e., large) sizes.
The only problem I've run into with PDFBox
has been handling of TrueType fonts.
Otherwise, both the software features and its
supporters have been a pleasure to work with.
Bob Swanson
