HTML to anything printable converter

[Aaron Fude]

Hi,

This is not really a java question, but java is my language of choice
so I'm posting it here.

I have to print a great number of web report each day and I would like
to find a java solution that downloads the HTML (that's easy), renders
it somehow (hopefully there is not too much javascript) and prints it.
So I would be very happy to find a cheap or free HTML->PDF or HTML-

Image java based solution.

Thanks!

Aaron Fude

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Aaron Fude wrote:
...

I have to print a great number of web report each day and I would like
to find a java solution that downloads the HTML (that's easy), renders
it somehow (hopefully there is not too much javascript) and prints it.
So I would be very happy to find a cheap or free HTML->PDF or HTML-

I might suggest JEditorPane for the rendering, but it
will still (in Java 6) fail to render most 'real world' web
pages as you or I might expect them, but there is also
the possibility to hook into the native browser, and use
that to print the pages.*

I am not sure quite why you would want to do the
intermediary conversion from HTML to either image
or PDF, since it will hardly 'gain' anything from the
conversion.

* For using the native browser, see JDIC.
<https://jdic.dev.java.net/>

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[Lew]

It doesn't work via the /strategy/ you suggest, but it achieve the /goal/ you
suggest: try iText.
<http://www.lowagie.com/iText/>

 

[Gordon Beaton]

I have to print a great number of web report each day and I would
like to find a java solution that downloads the HTML (that's easy),
renders it somehow (hopefully there is not too much javascript) and
prints it. So I would be very happy to find a cheap or free
HTML->PDF or HTML- Image java based solution.

Google suggested this:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html

As far as retrieving the html document goes, I'd script it and use a
tool like curl or wget.

/gordon

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