Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 21:52:07 +0300 From: "Alexander Prohorenko" <alexander.prohorenko@gmail.com> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HTML -> Java Browser -> PDF printer Message-ID: <d3ub1v$hp$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <d3u1rj$8p3$1@sea.gmane.org> <4262A402.8000508@telenet.be>
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You didn't get the idea, sorry. I've got a big site with content in HTML and I want to have a possibility to see any page in PDF (using the existing HTML context!). Unfortunetly, iText's possibility of converting HTML to PDF is pretty poor. "Wouter Beheydt" <w_beheydt@telenet.be> wrote in message news:4262A402.8000508@telenet.be... > Alexander Prohorenko wrote: > > >Hi. > > > >I've got a big site, completely in HTML (JSP) with CSS, etc. I've got a task to automatically generate PDF from any of the URL of this site. > > > >XML-FO - is not an answer. First of all, the way HTML-FO-PDF isn't very short, and besides, it doesn't understand a lot of HTML extensions, as well as CSSes, etc. > > > >HTMLDOC - is not an answer, too. It generates too terrible PDF sometimes, besides, doesn't know what CSS, too. > > > >The last thing which comes into my mind is a server-side HTML printing to PDF printer. The result is the good-looking in most cases. However, there is another problem, is how to do this Java server-side printing of HTML, as HTML should be rendered (!) first (and this should be done automatically!). As for the free software, the only thing which I found is JRex, but it's pretty wet and I believe it'd be bad in the automatic mode running on production server. Unfortunetly, we can't allow commercial software at this moment. > > > >I've also tried HotJava from ports (somebody told me that it can work out for this task) but it doesn't start at all and shows the followin error: > > > >/usr/local/jdk1.1.8/lib/i386/green_threads/libawt.so: Undefined symbol "xmDrawingAreaWidgetClass" (libawt.so) > >java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no awt in shared library path > > at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java) > > at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java) > > at > > at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(Toolkit.java:399) > > at sunw.hotjava.ui.SplashImage.<init>(SplashFrame.java:75) > > at sunw.hotjava.ui.SplashFrame.<init>(SplashFrame.java:48) > > at sunw.hotjava.Main.main(Main.java:85) > > > >Have anybody tried to solve this problem and had anyone suceeded? I'd be very thankful for any suggestion. > > > >Thank you! > > > >-- Alexander Prohorenko. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > Alexander, > > I don't understand exactly what you're trying to do. If you're talking > about generating pdf in java, perhaps try iText. I use it to generate > pdf documents from database content on my site. > > http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ > > Greetz, > Wouter > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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