Create PDF with Java

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Possible Duplicate    PDF Generation Library for Java       I m working on an invoice program for a local accounting company  What is a good way to create a PDF file with Java  Any good library  I m totally new to PDF export  On any language

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Following are few libraries to create PDF with Java:

I have used iText for genarating PDF's with a little bit of pain in the past.

Or you can try using FOP: FOP is an XSL formatter written in Java. It is used in conjunction with an XSLT transformation engine to format XML documents into PDF.

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Another alternative would be JasperReports  JasperReports Library  It uses iText itself and is more than a PDF library you asked for  but if it fits your needs I d go for it   Simply put  it allows you to design reports that can be filled during runtime  If you use a custom datasource  you might be able to integrate JasperReports easily into the existing system  It would save you the whole layouting troubles  e g  when invoices span over more sites where each side should have a footer and so on

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I prefer outputting my data into XML  using Castor  XStream or JAXB   then transforming it using a XSLT stylesheet into XSL-FO and render that with Apache FOP into PDF  Worked so far for 10-page reports and 400-page manuals  I found this more flexible and stylable than generating PDFs in code using iText

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