HTML to PDF again

Question

I need that my users can save my JSPs to PDF without installing a pdf printer.
Is there any way or tool to do that? i've been read about FOP and iText but i think that is very complicated. I don't care if i need to pay for a license

Answer 1

I don't think that you'll find a native HTML to PDF converter for Java. If you want something windows based I think you can take the HTML to PDF converter library for .NET from http://www.dotnet-reporting.com or from http://www.winnovative-software.com and build a ASP.NET 2.0 web service that you can furher call from your Java application.
All the conversion can be done in a few lines for C# code:
       // Create the PDF converter. Optionally you can specify the virtual browser
        // width as parameter. 1024 pixels is default, 0 means autodetect
        PdfConverter pdfConverter = new PdfConverter();
        // set the license key
        pdfConverter.LicenseKey = "P38cBx6AWW7b9c81TjEGxnrazP+J7rOjs+9omJ3TUycauK+cLWdrITM5T59hdW5r";
        // set the converter options
        pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.PdfPageSize = PdfPageSize.A4;
        pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.PdfCompressionLevel = PdfCompressionLevel.Normal;
        pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.PdfPageOrientation = PDFPageOrientation.Portrait;
        pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.ShowHeader = false;
        pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.ShowFooter = false;
        // set to generate selectable pdf or a pdf with embedded image
        pdfConverter.PdfDocumentOptions.GenerateSelectablePdf = selectablePDF;
        // Performs the conversion and get the pdf document bytes that you can further
        // save to a file or send as a browser response
        byte[] pdfBytes = pdfConverter.GetPdfFromUrlBytes(urlToConvert);