The IText library represents a Java API for creation PDF files. The following example describes how the developer can use IText to convert HTML to PDF.
Add Itext Maven dependencies:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>2.1.7</version>
</dependency>
Example Pdf creation Java code:
package org.developers.blog.html2pdf;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.Element;
import com.lowagie.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker;
import com.lowagie.text.html.simpleparser.StyleSheet;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.codec.Base64;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
public class Html2Pdf {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Document pdfDocument = new Document();
Reader htmlreader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
new FileInputStream("/home/rafsob/OpenSourceProjekte/simple-monitor-plugin/target/site/index.html")
));
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
PdfWriter.getInstance(pdfDocument, baos);
pdfDocument.open();
StyleSheet styles = new StyleSheet();
styles.loadTagStyle("body", "font", "Bitstream Vera Sans");
ArrayList arrayElementList = HTMLWorker.parseToList(htmlreader, styles);
for (int i = 0; i < arrayElementList.size(); ++i) {
Element e = (Element) arrayElementList.get(i);
pdfDocument.add(e);
}
pdfDocument.close();
byte[] bs = baos.toByteArray();
String pdfBase64 = Base64.encodeBytes(bs); //output
File pdfFile = new File("/tmp/pdfExample.pdf");
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(pdfFile);
out.write(bs);
out.close();
}
}
Regards
Rafael Sobek
hello
thanx for your post abt html to pdf conversion