Hi PDFBox Team, I introduce to me. I'm Angelo ZERR, one of developer of XDocRepor <http://code.google.com/p/xdocreport/>It's Java API to merge XML document created with MS Office <http://office.microsoft.com/fr-fr/> (docx) or OpenOffice <http://www.openoffice.org/> (odt), LibreOffice<http://www.libreoffice.org/>(odt) with a Java model to generate report and convert it if you need to another format (PDF, XHTML...).
* To convert ODT -> PDF, process is to load ODT with ODFDOM and loop for each Java ODFDOM structure to create iText widget. Please read http://code.google.com/p/xdocreport/wiki/ODFDOMConverter * To convert Docx -> PDF, process is to load docx with POI (HWPF) and loop for each Java HWPF structure to create iText widget. Please read http://code.google.com/p/xdocreport/wiki/XWPFConverter You can play with XDocReport at http://xdocreport.opensagres.cloudbees.net/processReport.jsp where you can generate report and convert it to XHTML:PDF (select the converter combo). An iframe display the result of the report converted. If you change the data model of the form, iframe is refreshed at runtime. So you can evaluate the performance of the XDocReport. XDocReport provides Java converter for docx and odt. We wish gives our 2 converter for POI and ODFDOM (soon Apache) but problem is itext license. So we tell us if we could replace itext with PDFBox to manage converter for odt and docx. odt and docx can be complex like Table, image in a table cell, etc... and it seems that PDFPox doesn't support widget Table (just find this article http://fahdshariff.blogspot.com/2010/10/creating-tables-with-pdfbox.html but if we wish manage images in a table cell, etc...I would like avoid implementing my own widgets). For performance have you doen benchmark (itext VS PDFBox). Thank a lot for your answer. Regards Angelo
