> Any suggestions for a PDF API at all so servlets can create PDF on the
 > fly?
 >
 > It got to be (of course) freeware... :-)

Check out itext, it is a sourceforge project,
http://www.sourceforge.net. It isn't complete yet, but certainly works.
I use it to make printable versions of my sites content on the fly.

Jayson Falkner
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 >
 >
 > Markus



Steve Forbes wrote:

> If your intention is to write formatting commands to a text file which is then 
>processed to produce
> a PDF file, then an approach that I have used successfully is pdftex. However, 
>pdftex is a
> command line utility, not a java api. The SGML latex code is written to a file, then 
>processed
> by pdftex at which point any required image files are included to output PDF. 
>Pdftex, aka pdflatex
> ( http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex/ ) comes as part of the tetex 
>distribution
> ( http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/ ). This is all freeware.
>
> More at:
> http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
> http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~otfried/Pdftex/
> http://www.isds.duke.edu/~sto/pdf.html
> http://www.tac.dk/cgi-bin/info2www?(latex)Command%20Index
> http://www.latex-project.org/
>
> I've found the best reference sources on producing the SGML latex code are books.
>
> Steve
>
>
>>>>Markus Kirsten<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 31/01/02 21:41:16 >>>
>>>>
>
> Any suggestions for a PDF API at all so servlets can create PDF on the
> fly?
>
> It got to be (of course) freeware... :-)
>
>
> Markus
>
>
> On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 10:04 PM, steve buonincontri wrote:
>
>
>>Looking for a RTF to PDF java API - Any suggestions?
>>
>>- sb
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