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
