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CeccoCQ
CeccoCQ

Reputation: 3754

iText style parsing HTML to PDF

I've a problem with iText.

I've followed this link: How to export html page to pdf format?

My snippet:

    String str = "<html><head><body><div style=\"width:100%;height:100%;\"><h3 style=\"margin-left:5px;margin-top:40px\">First</h3><div style=\"margin-left:15px;margin-top:15px\"><title></title><p>sdasdasd shshshshdffgdfgd</p></div><h3 style=\"margin-left:5px;margin-top:40px\">The dream</h3><div style=\"margin-left:15px;margin-top:15px\"></div></div></body></head></html>";
    String fileNameWithPath = "/Users/cecco/Desktop/pdf2.pdf";


    com.itextpdf.text.Document document =
            new com.itextpdf.text.Document(com.itextpdf.text.PageSize.A4);
    FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(fileNameWithPath);
    com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter pdfWriter =
            com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter.getInstance(document, fos);

    document.open();

    document.addAuthor("Myself");
    document.addSubject("My Subject");
    document.addCreationDate();
    document.addTitle("My Title");

    com.itextpdf.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker htmlWorker =
            new com.itextpdf.text.html.simpleparser.HTMLWorker(document);
    htmlWorker.parse(new StringReader(str.toString()));

    document.close();
    fos.close();

and work fine.

But tag style into h3 and div aren't considered.

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But if I copy my html into http://htmledit.squarefree.com/ all is correct.

How can I solve this problem?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 20389

Answers (1)

ollo
ollo

Reputation: 25350

iText isn't the best Html Parser, but you can use Flying-Saucer for this. Flying-Saucer is build on top of iText but has a capable Xml / (X)Html parser. Short: Flying Saucer is perfect if you want html -> Pdf.

Here's how to generate the pdf from your string:

/*
 * Note: i filled something in the title-tag and fixed the head tag (the whole body-tag was in the head)
 */
String str = "<html><head></head><body><div style=\"width:100%;height:100%;\"><h3 style=\"margin-left:5px;margin-top:40px\">First</h3><div style=\"margin-left:15px;margin-top:15px\"><title>t</title><p>sdasdasd shshshshdffgdfgd</p></div><h3 style=\"margin-left:5px;margin-top:40px\">The dream</h3><div style=\"margin-left:15px;margin-top:15px\"></div></div></body></html>";

OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(new File("example.pdf"));

ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocumentFromString(str);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(os);

os.close();

But: FS supports only valid Html / Xhtml / xml, so make shure it is.

Upvotes: 6

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