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Dear Corsin,<br>
<br>
HTML is too big/complicated (especially, when you consider CSS), so
transforming HTML to PDF will never be easy and it will require either
lots of work or it will bring weak results or a mixture of both. There
are probably some commercial solutions that try to convert HTML into
PDF, but I cannot suggest anything.<br>
__<br>
<br>
If you have the information in a structured manner (that means: XML),
then that would be much better. And if you want to transform XML to
PDF, then using XSLT and FOP is a very appropriate way of handling
things, at least if you're somewhat comfortable with XSLT.<br>
<br>
And it should be not so hard to find documentation on XSL:FO (that is
an XML-format for expressing paged documents and it's used by FOP and
other similar processors as input format) and samples for calling FOP.
Of course, you can also use sth. like itext to assemble your pages with
Java code, but imho an approach based XSLT/XSL-FO is much more
appropriate for most tasks where XML needs to be transformed into PDF
(or other paginated formats for that matter).<br>
<br>
<br>
If your content is valid XHTML, and you are happy with only some simple
HTML stuff being represented in PDF, then there also are some XSLTs on
the net that do a XHTML - to - XSL-FO transformation (and then, you
would have to use sth. like FOP again). Antennahouse had made some
XSLTs available for this some years ago. They are probably pretty basic
and I don't know if FOP will fully suppport all the formatting that
they use (Antennahouse is producer of a commertial XSL-FO - to - PDF
processor). If you are interested, you could search for "Antennahouse
XSLT HTML XSL FO" you should find them.<br>
<br>
regards<br>
christian<br>
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I need a solution to generate a PDF out of a page my users can
generate. Like <a href="http://www.mysite.com/mypage.html">www.mysite.com/mypage.html</a>
and a print link should link to the PDF version. Does anybody know if
there is a simple solution (like a HTML2PDF or simply a template) or do
I have to use iText and rebuild the page?
<br>
<br>
For any help or responses I am very thankful<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Corsin<br>
<br>
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Corsin Camichel<br>
<a href="mailto:cocaman@gmail.com">cocaman@gmail.com</a>
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