How to save file as pdf

Question

I have a website that's not ready for production yet. When the user purchase the product it is generating the receipt. What i need to do is i want to give the option to the user to save as pdf. On click of that icon receipt has to be downloaded. I have no idea to do this.

Here is the sample receipt: enter image description here

On Click of this "save as PDF" i need to download this receipt.

Can anyone help me in this.

try this:(http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/how-save-pdf-acrobat-javascript) — jmail, Mar 24 '14 at 07:08
Check this out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7355025/create-pdf-with-java — Keerthivasan, Mar 24 '14 at 07:09

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 24 '14 at 07:17

Your problems can be broken down into following pieces.

When the user clicks "Save as PDF"

Generate PDF:

iText comes very handy in doing this (its free & open source). Here is an example of generating a tabular data in PDF. There are tons of example from iText
Download the PDF.

Once the PDF is generated, the same can be send to the user via response object like any file. Here is an example of downloading a text file. The same can be used for downloading any file.

Hope this helps.

How to save file as pdf

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