Question

I have a json object that is actually an arraylist of objects previously converted to json.

What I’d like to do is to create a table like structure in my pdf document, grabing several object fields and mapping them to a column found in the table in pdf.

What is the quickest way I can do this?Or which libraries are common for java developers to render pdf.

My project is a web project, using spring mvc. I wonder if there is a way to generate pdf using @ResponseBody, obviously not, I’ve found few interesting libraries among those are jasper and fop. But they all seem to use xml, is there a way to convert POJO to entries in pdf?

When I was using php, many developers used fpdf library it was pretty straight forward

I found this great tutorial :

http://www.mkyong.com/spring-mvc/spring-mvc-export-data-to-pdf-file-via-abstractpdfview/

But I’m having problems with rotating all my pages to landscape.

I tried :

document.setPageSize(PageSize.LETTER.rotate());

But it only rotates the last page.

Answer 1

You can convert your JSON to XML using XML class from json.org and then use some example from Apache FOP to construct XSL transformation that will produce you a PDF.