Java - PDF Generation Framework

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I am using PDF documents for various purposes using iText library. Its like one class per PDF document. In a way there are a lot of similarities among the classes and the same have been listed below:

The fields have (x,y) location
The field can be wrapped after some no. of words
A field can have a value which is a function of one or more parameters
Subsequent page of PDF has to kept same or different

I am thinking of doing this layout business through a XML file. Any thoughts or innovative ideas of solving this are welcome.

Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/212577/how-do-you-create-a-pdf-from-xml-in-java — Mark, Jun 30 '09 at 13:52

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 30 '09 at 13:23

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take a look at PDFBox Library which is now in the incubator of Apache

answered Jun 30 '09 at 13:23

Prabhu R

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I could not find a running example on their site. It would be great if you could provide a example for understanding it. – Gaurav Saini Jun 30 '09 at 15:12
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try the internet wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pdfbox.org you should have some examples in their former site – Prabhu R Jun 30 '09 at 15:48
It may not be a good idea to recommend the OP a toolbox that has no recent documentation. – Joris Schellekens Oct 27 '17 at 19:20

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '09 at 13:27

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PDFBox is nice, Used it before and good good help from the developer. You might want to have a look at XSL:FO. It is an XML based formatting language that can output the result as PDF (and other formats) using Apache:FOP.

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stwissel

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 30 '09 at 13:30

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What about Prince? It's a FOP engine that uses CSS files as styling, and has a Java API. It's not free though (apart from the free Personal License)

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 30 '09 at 13:52

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Flying Saucer supports using XHTML/CSS to create PDFs.

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Mark

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Java - PDF Generation Framework

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