Monday, July 27, 2009

Bring HTML, CSS power into PDF using Java

Today web technology has become a very powerful tool in communication. The technology of HTML, XHTML and CSS are very rich and powerful.

If you can convert HTML into PDF with CSS styles, the power of HTML/CSS will creep into PDFs. Yes it is possible,

You will need “Flying Saucer” & “iText” Libraries, which is are free Java libraries to convert XTML, CSS to PDF.

"Flying Saucer" bundles iText library in its binary distribution. The source distribution also includes set of demo and sample codes making it easy to understand the API.

iText : http://www.lowagie.com/iText/
Flying Saucer : https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/

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