Home/ Questions/Q 8337461
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-09T04:18:43+00:00

I am looking for a fast and efficient way to create pdf from my

  • 0

I am looking for a fast and efficient way to create pdf from my website. The pdf will have images along with some text that I can pass as an html. The pdf could simply be a printed format of the html I pass. Something that is similar to what CutePDF does. Is it possible? How? Please share your thoughts.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Really its possible just one week before i did it. I was used java, servlet and jsp to did the same.

    Steps :

    1. Read the html file and have it in string.
    2. Use ITextRenderer for converting html to pdf
    3. set render document from string using setDocumentFromString()
    4. Then create pdf using createPDF() method
      • you can store pdf in specified path or output stream, i have used output stream

    Sample Code :

    Visit http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/06/26/generating-pdfs-with-flying-saucer-and-itext.html
protected void doProcess(HttpServletRequest request,
        HttpServletResponse response){
    response.setContentType("application/pdf;");
    response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=Filenametodownload.pdf");       
    String reportContent = "<html><body><b>This is sample HTML</b></body></html>";
    ServletOutputStream sos =null;
    try {
        sos = response.getOutputStream();
    } catch (IOException e1) {          
        e1.printStackTrace();
    }
    String st = System.getProperty("user.dir");
    // ITextRenderer is only works fine with compailed version of core-renderer.jar 
    //Jar available in http://wo-repository.doit.com.br/content/repositories/thirdparty/org/xhtmlrenderer/core-renderer/R8-final/
    ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();   
    //System.out.println(reportContent);
    renderer.setDocumentFromString(reportContent);
    renderer.layout();
    try {
        renderer.createPDF(sos);
    } catch (DocumentException e) {         
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

    try {       
        sos.close();
        session.removeAttribute("ReportContent");
    } catch (IOException e) {           
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

    Note : include itext.jar and core-renderer.jar

    Try this way u can do… All the best…

    • 0