Using iText to convert HTML to PDF

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Does anyone know if it is possible to convert a HTML page  url  to a PDF using iText   If the answer is  no  than that is OK as well since I will stop wasting my time trying to work it out and just spend some money on one of a number of components which I know can     Thanks in advance for your responses

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I have ended up using ABCPdf from webSupergoo  It works really well and for about  350 it has saved me hours and hours based on your comments above  Thanks again Daniel and Bratch for your comments

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Use itext libray   Here is the sample code  It is working perfectly fine           String htmlFilePath   filePath     html           String pdfFilePath   filePath     pdf               create an html file on given file path         Writer unicodeFileWriter   new OutputStreamWriter new FileOutputStream htmlFilePath    UTF-8            unicodeFileWriter write document toString             unicodeFileWriter close             ConverterProperties properties   new ConverterProperties            properties setCharset  UTF-8            if  url contains   kr      url contains   tw      url contains   cn      url contains   jp                  properties setFontProvider new DefaultFontProvider false  false  true                          convert the html file to pdf file          HtmlConverter convertToPdf new File htmlFilePath   new File pdfFilePath   properties     Maven dependencies       lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt com itextpdf lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt itext7-core lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 7 1 6 lt  version gt           lt type gt pom lt  type gt       lt  dependency gt        lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt com itextpdf lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt html2pdf lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 2 1 3 lt  version gt       lt  dependency gt

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I think this is exactly what you were looking for  http   today java net pub a today 2007 06 26 generating-pdfs-with-flying-saucer-and-itext html  http   code google com p flying-saucer     Flying Saucer s primary purpose is to render spec-compliant XHTML and CSS 2 1 to the screen as a Swing component  Though it was originally intended for embedding markup into desktop applications  things like the iTunes Music Store   Flying Saucer has been extended work with iText as well  This makes it very easy to render XHTML to PDFs  as well as to images and to the screen  Flying Saucer requires Java 1 4 or higher

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Maybe you could try   http   www allcolor org YaHPConverter

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When I needed HTML to PDF conversion earlier this year  I tried the trial of Winnovative HTML to PDF converter  I think ExpertPDF is the same product  too    It worked great so we bought a license at that company   I don t go into it too in depth after that

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When I needed HTML to PDF conversion earlier this year  I tried the trial of Winnovative HTML to PDF converter  I think ExpertPDF is the same product  too    It worked great so we bought a license at that company   I don t go into it too in depth after that

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The answer to your question is actually two-fold  First of all you need to specify what you intend to do with the rendered HTML  save it to a new PDF file  or use it within another rendering context  i e  add it to some other document you are generating   The former is relatively easily accomplished using the Flying Saucer framework  which can be found here  https   github com flyingsaucerproject flyingsaucer The latter is actually a much more comprehensive problem that needs to be categorized further  Using iText you won t be able to  trivially  at least  combine iText elements  i e  Paragraph  Phrase  Chunk and so on  with the generated HTML  You can hack your way out of this by using the ContentByte s addTemplate method and generating the HTML to this template  If you on the other hand want to stamp the generated HTML with something like watermarks  dates or the like  you can do this using iText  So bottom line  You can t trivially integrate the rendered HTML in other pdf generating contexts  but you can render HTML directly to a blank PDF document

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Use iText s HTMLWorker  Example

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When I needed HTML to PDF conversion earlier this year  I tried the trial of Winnovative HTML to PDF converter  I think ExpertPDF is the same product  too    It worked great so we bought a license at that company   I don t go into it too in depth after that

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The answer to your question is actually two-fold  First of all you need to specify what you intend to do with the rendered HTML  save it to a new PDF file  or use it within another rendering context  i e  add it to some other document you are generating   The former is relatively easily accomplished using the Flying Saucer framework  which can be found here  https   github com flyingsaucerproject flyingsaucer The latter is actually a much more comprehensive problem that needs to be categorized further  Using iText you won t be able to  trivially  at least  combine iText elements  i e  Paragraph  Phrase  Chunk and so on  with the generated HTML  You can hack your way out of this by using the ContentByte s addTemplate method and generating the HTML to this template  If you on the other hand want to stamp the generated HTML with something like watermarks  dates or the like  you can do this using iText  So bottom line  You can t trivially integrate the rendered HTML in other pdf generating contexts  but you can render HTML directly to a blank PDF document

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When I needed HTML to PDF conversion earlier this year  I tried the trial of Winnovative HTML to PDF converter  I think ExpertPDF is the same product  too    It worked great so we bought a license at that company   I don t go into it too in depth after that

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Use itext libray   Here is the sample code  It is working perfectly fine           String htmlFilePath   filePath     html           String pdfFilePath   filePath     pdf               create an html file on given file path         Writer unicodeFileWriter   new OutputStreamWriter new FileOutputStream htmlFilePath    UTF-8            unicodeFileWriter write document toString             unicodeFileWriter close             ConverterProperties properties   new ConverterProperties            properties setCharset  UTF-8            if  url contains   kr      url contains   tw      url contains   cn      url contains   jp                  properties setFontProvider new DefaultFontProvider false  false  true                          convert the html file to pdf file          HtmlConverter convertToPdf new File htmlFilePath   new File pdfFilePath   properties     Maven dependencies       lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt com itextpdf lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt itext7-core lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 7 1 6 lt  version gt           lt type gt pom lt  type gt       lt  dependency gt        lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt com itextpdf lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt html2pdf lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt 2 1 3 lt  version gt       lt  dependency gt

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I have ended up using ABCPdf from webSupergoo  It works really well and for about  350 it has saved me hours and hours based on your comments above  Thanks again Daniel and Bratch for your comments

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Use iText s HTMLWorker  Example

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I have ended up using ABCPdf from webSupergoo  It works really well and for about  350 it has saved me hours and hours based on your comments above  Thanks again Daniel and Bratch for your comments

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The easiest way of doing this is using pdfHTML  It s an iText7 add-on that converts HTML5   CSS3  into pdf syntax   The code is pretty straightforward       HtmlConverter convertToPdf            lt b gt This text should be written in bold  lt  b gt             html to be converted         new PdfWriter              new File  C   users mark documents output pdf       destination file                    To learn more  go to http   itextpdf com itext7 pdfHTML

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I think this is exactly what you were looking for  http   today java net pub a today 2007 06 26 generating-pdfs-with-flying-saucer-and-itext html  http   code google com p flying-saucer     Flying Saucer s primary purpose is to render spec-compliant XHTML and CSS 2 1 to the screen as a Swing component  Though it was originally intended for embedding markup into desktop applications  things like the iTunes Music Store   Flying Saucer has been extended work with iText as well  This makes it very easy to render XHTML to PDFs  as well as to images and to the screen  Flying Saucer requires Java 1 4 or higher

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I have ended up using ABCPdf from webSupergoo  It works really well and for about  350 it has saved me hours and hours based on your comments above  Thanks again Daniel and Bratch for your comments

User · Answer

Maybe you could try   http   www allcolor org YaHPConverter

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The easiest way of doing this is using pdfHTML  It s an iText7 add-on that converts HTML5   CSS3  into pdf syntax   The code is pretty straightforward       HtmlConverter convertToPdf            lt b gt This text should be written in bold  lt  b gt             html to be converted         new PdfWriter              new File  C   users mark documents output pdf       destination file                    To learn more  go to http   itextpdf com itext7 pdfHTML

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Maybe you could try   http   www allcolor org YaHPConverter

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Maybe you could try   http   www allcolor org YaHPConverter

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