Writing a HTML table to PDF in java

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Converting HTML Files to PDF
PDF file generation from XML or HTML

I have a table with content in html format , how do I write that table to PDF file in java?

I kind of get this working. I am using faceless pdf library. I have another doubt related to this still. Since I am writing data of html format in pdf , how can I get to know that I am at the end of page so I can print remaining data on next page? Right now it is writing incomplete data on only one pdf page , remaining data is not written.

possible duplicate of [Converting HTML Files to PDF](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/633780/converting-html-files-to-pdf) and [many others](http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=java+html+to+pdf). Please search before you post. — Matt Ball, Jan 25 '11 at 17:53
I am not converting HTML files. I did search actually before posting. — yogsma, Jan 25 '11 at 17:57

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 25 '11 at 17:54

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I believe you can use the iText API.

answered Jan 25 '11 at 17:54

Chris

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+1 I use iText usually to generate PDFs as well – Matthew Sant Jan 25 '11 at 18:07

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '11 at 20:18

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Use

DocBuilder to parse out the HTML in String Arrays, if you do not have it already
Use the orinoco library by Andy Khan to write out the PDF. Ref:

http://www.andykhan.com/orinoco/index.html

Good wishes, - M.S.

answered Jan 25 '11 at 20:18

Manidip Sengupta

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 25 '11 at 22:38

It depends a bit on the complexity of the HTML, if you need perfect conversion fidelity and run in a server environment then have a look at these blog post (which I wrote):

It uses a commercial product, but it works really well.

Writing a HTML table to PDF in java

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