Using iText to convert HTML to PDF

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Mark picture Mark · Oct 25, 2008 · Viewed 133.5k times · Source

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!

Answer

opensas picture opensas · Jul 8, 2009

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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