Hi Vinuri, You can use this library [1] for converting to HTML to PDF. But this is a C library and you can find Java wrappers [2].
[1] http://wkhtmltopdf.org/index.html [2] https://github.com/jhonnymertz/java-wkhtmltopdf-wrapper Best Regards, On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 10:04 AM, Vinuri Perera <vinu...@wso2.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > Currently we are sending an HTML template in an email. We have an > requirement of moving the HTML template content to PDF and sending as > attachments. > > As to my initial research, we can develop this using 2 different approaches > - Convert the HTML file to PDF > - Modify the PDF > > Also these are the several libraries I looked into and main drawbacks of > those- > - *iText - *This is not open source, commercial library [1] > <http://itextpdf.com/> > - *Apache FOP - *It is said FOP is more computing intensive. [2] > <http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/> > - *Apache PDFBox - *Can only use for PDF manipulation. [3] > <https://pdfbox.apache.org/> > - *flying-saucer *- Internally Flying Saucer uses iText > <http://itextpdf.com/> to generate the pdf. [4] > <https://code.google.com/archive/p/flying-saucer/> > > [1] - http://itextpdf.com/ <http://itextpdf.com/> > [2] - http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ > <http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/> > [3] - https://pdfbox.apache.org/ <https://pdfbox.apache.org/> > [4] - https://code.google.com/archive/p/flying-saucer/ > <https://code.google.com/archive/p/flying-saucer/> > > From those I think the Apache PDFBox seems to matching our requirement. > Please feel free to let me know if there are any other alternatives. > I Appreciate your ideas and input on this. > > Thank You, > Best Regards, > ~Vinuri~ > > -- > Vinuri Perera > Software Engineer | WSO2 Inc > > M : 0711518805 > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > Dev@wso2.org > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > -- *Lahiru Manohara* *Software Engineer* Mobile: +94716561576 WSO2 Inc. | http://wso2.com lean.enterprise.middleware
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