I'm using a servlet to send a pdf stream to a browser.
There is a request that the pdf must open the print dialog when I show it to the user.
I was successful doing this using iText api. Something like this:
stamper.setPageAction(PdfWriter.PAGE_OPEN, new PdfAction(PdfAction.PRINTDIALOG), 1);
Now I do need to close the pdf file after print. I tried using pdfactions, but I'm can't get it. What I tried is:
writer.setAdditionalAction(PdfWriter.DID_PRINT, PdfAction.javaScript("app.execMenuItem('Close');", writer));
or
writer.setAdditionalAction(PdfWriter.DID_PRINT, PdfAction.javaScript("app.close();", writer));
I don't necessarily need to use pdfActions, but I don't see how to get it after user sent the pdf to printer.
Do you have any ideas?
There's a reason why app.execMenuItem('Close'); and app.close() don't work. These methods are designed to close the standalone version of Adobe Reader/Acrobat. I guess you're viewing the PDF in a browser, in which case you use Adobe Reader as a plug-in, Chrome's PDF viewer, pdf.js in Firefox, or any other PDF viewer.
Problem #1: you need to close the browser window from a PDF document. PDFs don't have the power to control your browser. Suppose they would: wouldn't that be a serious security issue?
Problem #2: you embed the PDF inside a HTML page (e.g. using an <object> tag) and establish a communication between the JavaScript in the PDF and the JavaScript in the HTML. I've described how to do this in my book, but: it won't work with all browsers on all OSs. For instance: Chrome's PDF viewer and Firefox's pdf.js will completely ignore your commands.
You are asking a solution using our iText library, but you're asking something that can't be done with any software.
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How to generate the PDF in CQ5.6.1 using page content.
A button in my site (genarate PDF) on click of the button i have to genarate the PDF file using the same page content.
Please let me know is there any out of the box PDF genarator in CQ or do i need to get the any linsenced product to genarate the PDF.
Thanks..
Adobe CQ is integrated with the Apache FOP, a formatter able to create PDF files. This tutorial describes how to enable content rewriter providing PDF version of the content under the .pdf extension.
However, please keep in mind that this approach requires manually writing the XSLT transform file able to process your page (and every component on it) and output the XSL-FO document.
In a previous project (CQ 5.5) we used https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ to create PDF files.. worked pretty good!
I had used Phantomjs to create a a custom pdf from the cq5 pages. for example if you don not want to display the right trail in the pdf or you want to disable the header footer. all this can be achieved with the help of phantomjs.
create a servlet which will execute a command at your server.
phantomjs <custom.js> 'page_url' nameofthepdf.pdf
here custom.js will show or hide html content based on your need.
This will work for all pages irrespective of cq5 or any tool.
I created a wicket page which allow to the user to open PDF files. These PDF files are forms, which the user fill and send back. There is also Javascript which is used to automatically fill some fields.
The file is correctly open in the browser but there is a problem: Javascript is disabled and I don't know why. Is it normal? Is it for security reason?
When I download the file and open in Acrobat Reader, it works correctly.
I also disabled the option in Acrobat Reader to force the plugin to be used in place of the default reader of the browser. It works only in Firefox.
Is it possible to activate Javascript?
If not, is it possible to open automatically Adobe Reader?
I prefer not to save directly the file if possible.
If you talk about smartforms, you have to enable JavaScript in Acrobat. It has to be similar in browser or standalone. Also there can be many security reasons in different browsers due to enable/disable JS itself. One of the common reason is XSS voluentabirity. Also you have to know if the browser or its plugin supports JS. Not all browsers use Acrobat reader as well. However see http://www.smartforms.business.gov.au/DeveloperResources/Documents/JavaScript_Instructions.pdf how to enable JS in Acrobat Reader.
Generaly I do not recommend you to use PDF forms instead of HTML forms.
i've been searching on the internet on how to convert a HTML page into a PDF file using Java. i found a lot of pointers, and in short, they don't work or are too difficult to implement. i also downloaded a commercial product, pdf4ml; the API is something i'd be happy to work with, except that when i crawled a simple page on wikipedia, i get a out of memory error (setting Xmx to 1024 M). in some approaches, they suggest converting HTML -> XHTML -> FO -> PDF. however, i am getting a lot of exceptions for the XHTML-to-FO XLS file; and reading the documentations, it's not something that i have enough time to understand right now.
here are my questions/concerns.
1. is there another cohesive API out there that will easily convert HTML to PDF (commercial or not)?
2. is there a way i can simply capture a HTML page and store it as a single file. this approach would be similar to using internet explorer's way of saving a web page as a web archive (single file, MHT format)?
any help is appreciated. (btw, i know this question has been asked repeatedly, but in addition to the original spirit of the question, i'm opened to other ways). thanks.
Try wkhtmltopdf, which is using WebKit. Another option (I'm using that currently) is using OpenOffice (remote controlled via macros).
you may use iText open source Java lib for that, and read this
or use YaHPConverter open source Java lib.
or do this whith help of icepdf popular open source lib
or use pd4ml, but it not free, only trial.
or use this, and this is man for it.
My 2 cents using opensource tools:
You can use either Capture screenshots with Selenium or WebDriver to save html page's screenshot in an image file from your Java code. And once you have image file you can convert it to pdf again from your Java code.
EDIT:
It seems you can do all that in 1 step using itext Html to Pdf
I am not sure but you could Try
1) cobra html rendering engine http://lobobrowser.org/cobra.jsp
2) htmleditorkit -- part of jdk
3) JWebPane
Use the rendering kit to parse and render html. The rendered out put is a swing component. Swing component can be used by itext to generate pdf file out put
You can try out Pdfcrowd. It is an easy to use commercial online API with many options and with support for Java.
It can create PDF either from web pages or raw HTML code.
I am using PD4ML to print a PDF file and It is working fine. Now the thing is I want show that file directly in acrobat with out save that file. In Local version I am using
Program.launch(getFilePath());
It is working fine but in web version I am unable to get that.
Can you please suggest me, Its very helpful.
Thanks,
Vara Kumar PJD
The web isn't like your desktop, so forget about doing things on the web the way you do them on the desktop without at least some effort.
Know that you don't read PDF files on the web using Acrobat without a browser plugin. Or some other reader like Foxit Reader.
My recommendation: forget about doing it this way. Either server your pdf as a file that can be downloaded, or read this SO post about embedding PDF in HTML.
I don't think this will be possible: "showing file outside browser in an application without user consent" because that is how browser are made for security reason. The best you can do is, as pointed in earlier post is by darioo, to show file in browser or prompt user to download/open.
I need to convert a bundle of static HTML documents into a single PDF file programmatically on the server side on a Java/J2EE platform using a batch process preferably. The pdf files would be distributed to site users for offline browsing of the web pages.
The major points of the requirements are:
The banner at the top should not be present in the final pdf document.
The navigation bar on the left should be transformed into pdf bookmarks from html hyperlinks.
All hyperlinked contents (html/pdf/doc/docx etc.) present in the web pages should be part of the final pdf document with pdf bookmarks.
Is there any standard open source way of doing this?
Try Apache FOP. I just used it to convert XML to PDF and I think you can do the same with HTML/DOM. The website has a whole section on running FOP in a Java application and there's example code for DOM to PDF.
You can try iText - but I am not sure whether it handles all that you require.
Moreover, it is always better if you explore many options and then decide what you can and cannot do. In many cases there won't be any library/API that will out of the box support all that you ask for.
You can try www.alt-soft.com Xml2PDF for this