Send webpage data from a php database or form to a printable PDF

Question

i have a webpage that has data on it that comes from a php database. the data doesnt currently sit inside a form feild but it can be if need.
i need then to click a link and the data on the page + more is sent to a premade pdf form ( the form also has other data on it not coming from the webpage) then ready for printing
any ideas?

Answer 1

You probably have a 'byte order marker' ( BOM ) at the beginning of the file. You can use my BOMStripperInputStream posted in reply #7 of http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5310966 or you can just discard the BOM bytes from the InputStream before wrapping it in the BufferedReader.
Hi Sabre im facin the same probem.
bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/UTF8RDFiles/Example.txt"),"UTF-8"));
bufferedReader.readLine() returns a junk character ? at the beginning of the line.
you have instructed to use your BOMStripperInputStream posted in reply #7 of http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5310966 but i dotn know how to use it with bufferedReader because i want my method to return only a BufferedReader object.
can you suggest me how to go about it.
my code is as below need help.
public BufferedReader check(){
                 bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream("C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/Desktop/UTF8RDFiles/Example.txt"),"UTF-8"));
        return bufferedReader; // need to return bufferedReader object only...since some other code needs bufferedReader ...suggest me.
i will be highly obliged if you paste the refined code.. please need your urgent help on this...
Regards
Deepak