Creating pdf file using Apache PDFBox API in ADF Faces and opening it in new window -Oracle ADF

Apache PDFBox library is an open source java tool for working with PDF documents, go to http://pdfbox.apache.org/ for API docs and download jar (pdfbox-app-1.8.2) from there.

•  Now create a fusion web application and add jar to view controller project's library and class-path

•  To convert text to pdf format, i have used an input text and bind it to bean (to get value)

•  Now see the button code that converts text to pdf file format using Apache PDFBox



        PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
        PDPage page = new PDPage();
        document.addPage(page);

        // Create a new font object selecting one of the PDF base fonts
        PDFont font = getFontDef();

        // Start a new content stream which will "hold" the to be created content
        PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);

        // Define a text content stream using the selected font, moving the cursor and drawing the text "Hello World"

        contentStream.beginText();
        contentStream.setFont(font, 10);
        contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(50, 700);
        contentStream.drawString(textToConvert.getValue().toString());
        contentStream.endText();

        // Make sure that the content stream is closed:
        contentStream.close();

        // Save the results and ensure that the document is properly closed:
        try {
            document.save("D:/Test_pdf.pdf");
        } catch (COSVisitorException e) {
        }
        document.close();



• now your pdf is generated in fixed path, and if user want to open it immediately , try to do this





        if ((new File("D:\\Hello World.pdf")).exists()) {

            Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler D:\\Hello World.pdf");
            p.waitFor();

        } else {

            System.out.println("File is not exists");

        }



• this code invokes File Protocol using Runtime class
• Run this application and see-

 Click on generate button-

For more details and functionality visit Apache PDFBox site

Sample ADF Application-Download