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Asked: 2026-05-26T07:36:23+00:00

I am looking for a way to create pixel perfect, paginated, styled correspondence in

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I am looking for a way to create pixel perfect, paginated, styled correspondence in a Java web application.

The requirements for this functionality are
– Ability to define outer/ master template with header/ footer/ logo etc…
– Ability to define inner content template where specific variables/ fields can be substituted with instance values at run time – e.g. employeeName. employeeAddress. The content template would be defined online using rich text editor or something similar
– Supports tables/ list

I believe iText does most/ if not all. Other options that I have considered is BIRT. Are there other/ better choices for this purpose?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have done something like with iText, although our case did not use an online text editor (we had a small number of templates and they were defined as part of the development cycle)

    [Note: We did this under an older version of iText when it was still LGPL rather than Affero GPL]

    The results were excellent, but in order to get it pixel-perfect we had to do a lot of work ourselves. We did manual layout and pagination – including manual text wrapping, etc. The layout tools that iText provides looked good, but they didn’t give us the pixel-perfect control that we needed for the use case we had.

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