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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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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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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Following are few libraries to create PDF with Java    iText  Apache PDFBox BFO   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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