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Now to add to this .. Sun has released a new open-...

2007-12-14T18:18:31.920-08:00

Now to add to this ..
Sun has released a new open-source project as part of SwingLabs: PDF Renderer, "a 100% Java PDF Renderer and Viewer." PDF Renderer can parse the Portable Document Format (PDF) from a file and display it, as an AWT image, in a panel, or using any Graphics2D implementation. It has been released under the LGPL license, the same license used by the rest of SwingLabs.

Hello,I am working for a company which has a produ...

2007-11-07T05:39:00.000-08:00

Hello,

I am working for a company which has a product to create a PDF documents dynamically. Our product will allow you to create PDF documents programmatically from scratch, merge existing PDF documents, add contents to existing PDF files, stamping PDFs, appending existing PDF documents, form filling, rotating and scaling PDFs, etc.

You can add tables and wrapped text to the PDF using the Table and TextArea page elements respectively. You can also take care of the overflow rows or text and you can add this overflows to a new page. You can do this until you have the overflows.

You will have to use our product DynamicPDF for Java when you are working with the java application. You can refer to our website at http://www.ceTe.com.

Thanks,
Ranga,
ceTe Software Support Team.

Jboss Seam has nice integration with iText for ent...

2007-11-05T12:56:00.000-08:00

Jboss Seam has nice integration with iText for enterprise applications.

http://docs.jboss.com/seam/2.0.0.GA/reference/en/html/itext.html
BTW, JBoss Seam 2.0 is out...

Hi--Note that the Flying Saucer library also allow...

2007-11-05T12:02:00.000-08:00

Hi--Note that the Flying Saucer library also allows you to render to PDF, using XHTML (or any XML) and CSS 2.1. PDF output is also via iText, but for many purposes should be easier than using iText directly. Check it out when you get a chance!

http://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net

Regards
Patrick
Flying Saucer Team

On the surface, this seems like a good approach. ...

2007-11-05T05:00:00.000-08:00

On the surface, this seems like a good approach. I've found in practice, it breaks down pretty quickly when you need to start outputting special formatting (tables, wrapped text, etc). Building and configuring all of that with code turns into a maintenance nightmare. An alternative solution is to build use LifeCycle Designer to build PDFs that populate themselves by calling web services. I've found this solution costs less up-front *and* is easier to maintain.