Hi > Hello, > > Yes, but the examples I see are very basic and the API's are quite > extensive. In short PDFBox can do a lot, but I have no way of finding > something quickly what I am looking for. I guess I have no option but to go > through the API's and the basic examples to do what I want. My tasks are : > > 1) getting the data from the database(I have methods for that), format it > in correct way and put it in PDF: > 2) As the information in database can be small or big, I have to adjust > that in PDF.
Is that a forms filling application or do you have to output dynamic text blocks? > 3) The information in database has to be put on top of certain images in > the pdf. So the PDF is preexisting or are the images added as part of your application? > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> There is no "PDFBox in action" book, if that is what you mean. >> >> Most people learn by seeing examples. >> >> If there's a specific PDF element that you would like as example, just ask. >> >> However creating PDFs has only very basic support in PDFBox, i.e. you have >> to do everything youself, there's no higher API, e.g. for paragraphs or >> tables (there's a user who created a class for tables). >> >> A totally different approach would be Apache FOP. >> >> Tilman >> >> >> Am 06.11.2014 um 17:23 schrieb Kernel freak: >> >> Hello, >>> >>> I want to use Apache PDFBox to create some advanced pdf's in Java. I >>> couldn't find any good documentation for PDFBox. Only a few examples and >>> directly the API docs. >>> Does anyone knows any good book or good documentation like other apache >>> products have. Kindly let me know. I don't want tutorials, there are many >>> on net and they are very basic, and going through the entire source code >>> takes a lot of time. Thank you. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Kernel >>> >>> >>
