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Crouch
Crouch

Reputation: 896

Create pdf in servlet using form data (iText)

I'm not sure if this question has been asked I've searched all over the net for about a week now and found nothing yet. I basically want to be able to create a pdf using fields from a form, now I wrote a similar servlet a while back where I used form data to write an email and I tried using similar principles but it didn't work. I'm not sure if I've missed a trick or completely misunderstood something but this is the code I wrote.

<%@
page import="java.io.*, com.itextpdf.text.*, com.itextpdf.text.pdf.*"
%>
<%
    Document document=new Document(); 
    PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream("C:\\hello.pdf"));
    document.open();
    document.add(new Paragraph("Daily Briefing Sheet"));
    document.add(new Paragraph(%><%request.getParameter("employeeid")%><%));
    document.close();
%>

I can create the pdf but as soon as i use this line it won't create it.

document.add(new Paragraph(%><%request.getParameter("employeeid")%><%));

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1411

Answers (2)

Crouch
Crouch

Reputation: 896

Made the rookie mistake of using another file that couldnt actually see the variables I was requesting because the button was going to a link not the form action destination

Upvotes: 0

Santino &#39;Sonny&#39; Corleone
Santino &#39;Sonny&#39; Corleone

Reputation: 1753

why use JSP tags within scriptlets? just remove the SCRIPTLETS and it should work

<%@
page import="java.io.*, com.itextpdf.text.*, com.itextpdf.text.pdf.*"
%>
<%
    Document document=new Document(); 
    PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream("C:\\hello.pdf"));
    document.open();
    document.add(new Paragraph("Daily Briefing Sheet"));
    document.add(new Paragraph(request.getParameter("employeeid")));
    document.close();
%>

Upvotes: 1

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