I need to create PDF output in jsp. The code is actually generating in the form a brochure which contains profile information but in HTML format. So, I wanted that HTML output to be converted into PDF format, and also it should not display "headers and footers" while printing! I've now installed "itext" too, but I'm not getting how to use to generate PDF file.
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There is a PDF file with images and text mixed like in the picture above.
As a result, I want to create a parser that make PDF files to data with a fixed format.
Question is.
Simply, how to replace image to text ? TextStripper skip all images.
Extracting and dataizing text is successful, but it does not recognize the image between the texts.
I'm using PDF BOX. I extract pdf with PDFTextStripper().getText();
I also succeeded in extracting the images individually.
I want to convert a portion of my jsp page to pdf. Now I am considering iText for this. Now iText will convert html code to pdf which is fine. But how to fetch my html code with all the stylling applied?
I have my css classes in external css file. I am trying to fetch html code but not getting the css rules applied to elements.
Is there any alternative way?
I have successfully parsed a XML file into a XHTML file, and then finally into a PDF using iText.
Now the next achievement would be to attach and link the Base64 embedded documents from the XML file into the PDF document. Attaching these files (so they appear in the "attachments pane" in the PDF viewer) is working.
Now my problem is that these attachments (.doc, .ppt, etc) should be opened by clicking on a text link or an image (icon). The images (and document names e.g. "test.doc") are already in the PDF, but how can I link the right file to the right image or text link? Could some of you give me a hint where to start?
What you could do is create a "mapping" of those files to the names, so they will have a unique identifier. After that you just create an endpoint that will return required file with required mime type (check out Octet stream as well). In the PDF you just add the hyperlinks that will go to your endpoint and fetch the required document by name.
EDIT: You could actually have more than one endpoint: you could need one for every mime type you use for more convenience.
In order to create a link inside PDF, use Anchor from iText lib.
In order to create an endpoint - it is really up to you. You can use any way to create a webapp that would return a file from web interactively.
I have pdf file in my application. I need to display the pdf in browser. and also need to give print option to that page for printing how is it possible in servlet.i am generating pdf but how to give the print option to that generated pdf
I think javascript should help You.
Use window.print()
Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/met_win_print.asp
In my application I can connect to a database and get an array resultset and using JSP code I can iterate through the array and can display the report in my webpage using HTML.
I want that the generated report in my HTML webpage can be exported in PDF format and saved in some .pdf file.
Please tell me how to implement such technique to implement such exporting technique.
You can use the PdfWriter class that comes with this package, which includes a quick tutorial from IBM on how to use it:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-javapdf/