Convert HTML to PDF - API or utility
807589Nov 23 2004 — edited Oct 5 2008Hi community,
Our product generates HTML reports, after that the users can edit them, and finally they want to send them via e-mail to another party. They want to send PDF document generated from that HTML. So I need to convert the HTML to PDF. Till now we did that with FOP and a xsl file we found(I don't remember where from) and improved a bit. However it becomes hard to maintain.
Searching around the forum and Google I found out about HTMLDoc, but it is not appropriate because FAQ states that currently it cannot embed other fonts than preset ones, and I need cyrillic font support. I tried several virtual printers that print to PDF file, but I want to escape from the HTML look - like table borders, etc.
I need a pointer to an appropriate product. Preferrably a pure java library, cross-platform because we will soon migrate from Windows to Linux, with support for external font embedding (like fop and iText). I am not limited to using only opensource and free libraries, it can be a commercial licence one.
Please share your experience in this area and guide me to a good library
Thanks for your time
Mike