An interesting idea (though nowhere near being a reality) is this javascript pdf generation library.. http://jspdf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/basic.htm
Cheers, Jake On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Jean-Francois Veillette < [email protected]> wrote: > a 4th option would be UJAC: http://ujac.sf.net > It is similar to xml-fo, but lot simpler and closer to html. It is also > more flexible. It would be my first choice if only the only caveat is that > it is not 'standard', so it will depend on your organisation and on long > term plan for what you are doing. > > - jfv > > Le 09-04-29 à 18:31, Hugi Thordarson a écrit : > > A good and swineflufree afternoon to ya'll. >> If you already have HTML that you want to render as PDF, The Flying Saucer >> Project is your new saviour. >> >> 1. Go to https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/ and download a stable >> binary. >> 2. Add the three required jars to your project (iText/xml/core-renderer). >> 3. Use something like the following method (or one of other dozen methods) >> to render your HTML to PDF: >> >> >> /** >> * Uses xhtmlrenderer to generate a PDF-file from XHTML. >> * >> * @param htmlString HTML String to convert to PDF. Valid XHTML >> only, please. >> * @return Beautifully rendered PDF data. >> */ >> public static byte[] convertHTMLToPdf( String htmlString ) { >> try { >> ByteArrayOutputStream os = new >> ByteArrayOutputStream(); >> >> ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer(); >> renderer.setDocumentFromString( htmlString ); >> renderer.layout(); >> renderer.createPDF( os ); >> >> os.close(); >> >> return os.toByteArray(); >> } >> catch( Exception e ) { >> logger.error( "Could not convert HTML to PDF", e ); >> } >> >> return null; >> } >> >> If you want alternatives, I've been through a few hoops with >> PDF-generation in my days, and this is my opinion on some of them: >> >> - FO processed with FOP: Flexible, but FO XML syntax is an entirely new >> language to learn, very verbose and an overkill for 99% of use cases. FOP >> implementation of FO lacked features I wanted, and I've deprecated use of FO >> within our corporation. >> - PD4ML: My previous tool of choice for the simple things. Converts HTML >> to PDF, but is neither free nor OSS. And Flying Saucer Project does nicer >> rendering anyway. >> - iText, using the java APIs: Very powerful, very flexible, a control >> freak's dream :-). I use it for mission critical stuff where I need maximum >> control over presentation and want to generate tiny, beautiful (binarily >> talking) files. It's a bit like creating documents using the DOM API, only >> simpler and nicer (thank god). >> >> Cheers, >> - Hugi >> >> ps: If you don't know how to get HTML from your rendered component - then >> to get you started, you can call >> myPDFToBeComponent.context().response().contentString(). >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 29.4.2009, at 18:26, shravan kumar wrote: >> >> Hello Group, >>> >>> We have an app, where a module is presented to the user in a wizard >>> fashion i.e., this module has several pages and user can navigate from one >>> page to another using the wizard navigation controls and jump to any >>> sections as required. >>> >>> Once the user has completed one trip to this wizard i.e., if for once >>> user has watched all the screens in the wizard then upon user Finalizing the >>> wizard data we would need to create a pdf with the content in each screen/ >>> page of the wizard automatically and email this pdf to our support team. >>> >>> We have components in this wizard designed and are functional. Now we >>> need to get the pdf document out of this wizard generated automatically upon >>> user finalizing the wizard data from back end. >>> >>> User is not suppose to invoke this pdf generation but rather should >>> happen automatically. >>> >>> Any one please advise me the best way to achieve this and also suggest if >>> we have any tools already available over the internet and I can reuse them >>> here. >>> >>> Please let me know if I did not present myself correctly. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Shravan Kumar. M >>> ------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. 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