HTML to PDF convertion tool

Hi.
I need a tool which let me to convert HTML pages to PDF documents. It would be great If I could find a Java library for that (free or to pay for). Does anyone know something about this kind of tool? Once again: I'm intersted in HTML to PDF conversion NOT to create PDF from pure Java code.
Any help would be great...

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);

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What are there good open-soucrce tools to convert HTML into PDF document?
Thank you in advance.

Here's a tutorial on setting up HTMLDOC for ColdFusion:
http://tutorial135.easycfm.com
Also the command line reference gives a good understanding on
how the command line version works:
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/docfiles/8-cmdref.html

HTML to PDF converter

Hi All,
Is there any tool which we can use with Coldfusion to generate the PDF's from HTML/webpage?
I have seen many tool kit, when we want to convert a PDF from the webpage, we need to click "find" on the browser and select the tool , where the PDF will be created.
Instead can we use some API of that and implement the same functionality ?
All I need is a link or button in my webpage, when the user clicks on that, the PDF should be generated with the current page as the content.
I hope my question is understood.
Your help in highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

In your current pages (assuming they are cfm).
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<input type="hidden" name="makeapdf" value="yes">
<input type="hidden" name="desiredpage" value="#listgetat(script_name,listlen(script_name,"/"),"/")#">
<cfset FormVariables = "">
<cfif IsDefined("Fieldnames")>
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I need that my users can save my JSPs to PDF without installing a pdf printer.
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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.
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How to convert HTML to PDF

- runs on Linux, 2.4.24 Kernel.
- We would like to be able convert the HTML report into a PDF file.
- Ideally we would like to use open source code for the PDF generation
We would like to be able to include both Text and Bitmaps in the PDF output
Thanks!
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dragontail77

HTML to PDF with Java, using OpenOffice.org - example here: [http://www.dancrintea.ro/html-to-pdf/|http://www.dancrintea.ro/html-to-pdf/]
You can use OpenOffice.org, running as a server and command it remotely for document convertion.
Besides HTML to PDF, there are also possible other convertions:
doc --> pdf, html, txt, rtf
xls --> pdf, html, csv
ppt --> pdf, swf
Code example:
import officetools.OfficeFile; // this is my tools package
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(new File("c:/test.html"));
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(new File("c:/test.pdf"));
// suppose OpenOffice.org runs on localhost, port 8100
OfficeFile f = new OfficeFile(fis,"localhost","8100", true);
f.convert(fos,"pdf");
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to convert html 2 pdf file I found the article from javaworld.
(http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html)
unfortunately I can't seem to find the two classes below even though import all fop 0.94 library files.
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I'm not sure it'll help you, but take a look at
http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html
maybe you can go this way
XHTML->XML->FOP->PDF
???

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I'm using my iPad to write documents using Byword that I export using HTML (export to PDF doesn't take account of HTML headers and rendering MathJax).
Lets say that the text file therefore is called MathJax.txt and is in the location such that it's file path is Dropbox/Byword/MathJax.txt
This HTML file is saved straight onto my Dropbox in the current location. (i.e. Dropbox/Byword/MathJax.html )
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Freddie

There is an app version in Google code…
https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
I downloaded it & opened it & it appeared to do nothing! However I also did right click > (or ctrl+click) Show Package contents… and navigated to Contents/MacOS/wkhtmltopdf. That is a compiled binary that will run in Terminal.
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Hit return & you get a PDF, I don't know if this covers MathJax formatting, I have never heard of that sorry.
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import com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClientFactoryProperties;
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Error OCCURRED: Internal error.
ALC-DSC-000-000: com.adobe.idp.dsc.DSCRuntimeException: Internal error.
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Yes Sir.....Thanks for ur suggestion.....
But i didn't find exact solution..well..yes i found some but not exactly there were not in the way i required...I jus need to convert HTML to PDF using iText API for java.....I already used some classes in that like HTMLParser.....etc..
So Any thing else...Any one...Sure can help me in this................

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Thanks for that idea ChuckBing. I will download OpenOffice and try this, it sounds good because OpenOffice seems to support both Linux and Windows.
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thanks, but what i'm looking for here is programmatic usage -- that is, scripted or command-line -- not having a human user choosing menu options, etc
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this would appear to be NOT programmatic ...
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Does anybody have jar file for converting a html document to pdf?

Are u particular about using jar file ?
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