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I'm working on an invoice program for a local accounting company.
What is a good way to create a PDF file with Java? Any good library?
I'm totally new to PDF export (On any language).
I prefer outputting my data into XML (using Castor, XStream or JAXB), then transforming it using a XSLT stylesheet into XSL-FO and render that with Apache FOP into PDF. Worked so far for 10-page reports and 400-page manuals. I found this more flexible and stylable than generating PDFs in code using iText.
Following are few libraries to create PDF with Java:
iText
Apache PDFBox
BFO
I have used iText for genarating PDF's with a little bit of pain in the past.
Or you can try using FOP: FOP is an XSL formatter written in Java. It is used in conjunction with an XSLT transformation engine to format XML documents into PDF.
Another alternative would be JasperReports: JasperReports Library. It uses iText itself and is more than a PDF library you asked for, but if it fits your needs I'd go for it.
Simply put, it allows you to design reports that can be filled during runtime. If you use a custom datasource, you might be able to integrate JasperReports easily into the existing system. It would save you the whole layouting troubles, e.g. when invoices span over more sites where each side should have a footer and so on.
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i'm writing a docx with apache poi and i have enriched text like "<p>This is a Paragraph with <strong>enriched text</strong>.</p>". But i need that the Word document keep the style like the "strong".
If you only have to create bold/italic/underlined texts, then checking the tags like strong yourself and using the build in Apache POI functions setBold/setItalic on the run Class can be an option. If more complex HTML structures like with breaks and lists are also included, then a better option would be to use the JSOUP library in combination with Apache POI. I have good experience with this library in combination with Apache POI.
Simple example:
How do I use Jsoup to parse html for text?
I have to generate a simple PDF document from a little java batch (Java 7). The generated document will contain a list and a couple of tables (nothing fancy). Aside from license problems (AGPL is not an issue in this case), which library is faster/easier to implement and has better performances between iText and Apache FOP for the desired output?
As you said , you don't need fancy tables and you need faster and easier library to implement, I'd prefer iText because it is very much simpler than Apache FOP. It is very easy to add list and tables to your PDF document by using iText. Apache FOP is much concerned about generating PDF documents in which the data to be written is stored in XML. Basically Apache FOP's main objective is to convert XML files to PDF ones.
You can visit here for more details:- http://blog.xebia.com/comparing-apache-fop-with-itext/
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Read xlsx file in Java
can anybody answer how to read xlsx file in java.
Try Apache POI - the Java API for Microsoft Documents
Have a look at http://poi.apache.org/spreadsheet/index.html
"Why would you use docx4j to do this", I hear you ask, "rather than POI, which focuses on xlsx and binary xls?"
Probably because you like JAXB (as opposed to XML Beans), or you are already using docx4j for docx or pptx, and need to be able to do some stuff with xlsx as well.
Another possible reason is that the jar XML Beans generates from the OpenXML schemas is too big for your purposes. (To get around this, POI offers a 'lite' subset: the 'big' ooxml-schemas-1.0.jar is 14.5 MB! But if you need to support arbitrary spreadsheets, you'll probably need the complete jar). In contrast, the whole of docx4j/pptx4j/xlsx4j weighs in at about the same as POI's lite subset.
If you are processing spreadsheets only (ie not docx or pptx), and preceding paragraph is not a concern for you, then you would probably be best off using POI.
How to create pdf with complex design views in Java?I have tried it using jasper reports.Is there Any Ideas for creating PDF for Income tax forms?.
A commonly used Java API to create PDF files is iText. Give it a look. API documentation can be found here, code examples can be found here, a tutorial can be found here.
A good but less widely known Java API is OOo API wherein you can create any OOo document to your taste and finally export to PDF.
Have you taken a look at the Apache PDFBox project. I believe you can create PDFs using this library, although it is more commonly used in Lucene to convert PDFs to text to allow indexing.
You could also try Docmosis or JODConverter to do the conversion as long as you can install OpenOffice somewhere. They work on many platforms and can be Java controlled and will save you the hassle of learning the OOo UNO API.
Design your complex PDF Form with the appropriate tools, something like Acrobat Professional. Then from your Java code, you generate an FDF file (Form Data Format) and let the PDF Reader do the merging or you do it from the server-side and stream back the result.
Possible solutions to process FDF are Adobe Java FDF Toolkit or Apache PDFBox.
one approach that requires very little programming is converting your Java object to XML using the Java Binding API for XML (JABX) and then use apache FOP (XSL-FO) to create the PDF from XML. The adavantage of this approach is that is almost 100% declarative, .i.e no programming involved other than executing jabx and apache fop. If you want a tool to create the XSL-FO template, look at J4L FO Designer
You can try ITextPDF.jar Add this jar to your application and please go through the examples to know more about the tags and design procedure used for creating a PDF Document. Check this link for a simple exmaple http://itextpdf.com/examples/iia.php?id=12
Is there any way to create PDF dynamically against receiving texts and images?
You can use the iText library.
If you're generating reports then JasperReports can generate PDF output.
iText and JasperReports are great to create pdf reports via Java.
With iReport you can easily create the jasper files needed for this. Very easy to use tool and helped me a lot when I needed to create some pdf reports.
We use Flying Saucer.
There are several libraries for working with PDF in Java, for example iText and Apache PDFBox.
There's a ton of ways to generate PDFs on the fly.
In Java, you can use the iText library. If you wanted to use Jython, you could use reStructuredText and possibly rst2pdf. Or you could just generate LaTeX files on the fly and make a system call to LaTeX.
A bit late but maybe useful to other searchers. Docmosis can populate templates and produce documents on the fly. Assuming you mean you need to include images and text, Docmosis can populate these on the fly from Java objects, text/image files, database queries etc. Java and Openoffice are required server-side.
I work with Apache FOP and it works amazingly well. It's well supported and it's based on the XSL-FO standard.
If you're doing reports based on for example SQL queries then iReport is a good choice although it's sometimes a bit heavyweight. On the other hand if you're going to produce something that's more about presentation and design, like a product sheet or a brochure then my experience is that it's alot easier to first generate html and css and then use it to generate a PDF.