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Re: Creating PDF output on demand
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Re: Creating PDF output on demand


  • Subject: Re: Creating PDF output on demand
  • From: Hugi Thordarson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:18:53 +0000

Hi Stefan!

There's an example of iText integration with WO here: http:// hugi.karlmenn.is/page/webobjects .

I was working on a PDF project the other day, and found that I had to write some very complex iText code to achieve what I wanted. I took a look at FO, and that is indeed very fun to work with, but unfortunately, Apache FOP does not support some of the stuff I needed to do.
I ended up using a nice little library called PD4ML which allows you to design your document in HTML and then converts the HTML to PDF for you. It even has limited support for CSS.
If commercial software is an option for you, you can download an evaluation version here: http://pd4ml.zefer.org/ .


Here's some simple example code for generating PDF with it (basically ripped from the PD4ML tutorial, but with an added WO twist):

	import org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4ML;
	import org.zefer.pd4ml.PD4Constants;
	import java.awt.Dimension;
	import java.awt.Insets;
	import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
	import java.io.StringReader;

public static NSData convertHTMLToPDF( String htmlString, boolean isLandscape ) {

Dimension format = PD4Constants.A4;


		// margins in millimeters
		int topValue = 10;
		int leftValue = 10;
		int rightValue = 10;
		int bottomValue = 10;

		// Width of the HTML
		int userSpaceWidth = 780;

		ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

		try {
			PD4ML pd4ml = new PD4ML();

if( isLandscape ) {
format = pd4ml.changePageOrientation( format );
}

pd4ml.setPageSize( format );
pd4ml.setPageInsetsMM( new Insets(topValue, leftValue, bottomValue, rightValue) );


			pd4ml.setHtmlWidth( userSpaceWidth );
			pd4ml.enableImgSplit( true );
			pd4ml.enableRenderingPatch( true );

			pd4ml.render( new StringReader( htmlString ), bos );
		}
		catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		return new NSData( bos.toByteArray() );
	}

Cheers,
- Hugi


On 30.11.2005, at 21:20, Stefan Pantke wrote:

I need to compose PDF output based on certain input,

	- partly based on XML
		... and apply styles for PDF output
	- partly based on images and Text
		... and apply 'simple' composition rules for PDF output

I know of FOP, but just found iText

	http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

iText seems to be well documented and feature rich. At least for my
second task, this might be a good solution to further evaluate options.


My PDFs need to be high-resolution to be printed on high-resolution
imaging/printing machine.

But: Do we have a PDF lib, which especially integrates well with WO?


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