PDF « Graphics Desktop « Java Articles

1.	Build Deploy
2.	Class
3.	Core Library
4.	Data Types
5.	Database JDBC
6.	Design
7.	Development
8.	File Input Output
9.	Graphics Desktop
10.	J2EE Enterprise
11.	J2ME Wireless
12.	JVM
13.	Language
14.	Library Product
15.	Network
16.	Security
17.	SOA Web Services
18.	Test
19.	Web Development
20.	XML

Java Articles » Graphics Desktop » PDF

1. XML to PDF? Oh, FOP It. onjava.com

Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) is an open source Java API that can convert your XML data into reports in PDF format, as well as such other relevant formats as TXT, SVG, AWT, MIF, and PS. The software is developed under the Apache XML project and is free to use.

2. Accessing a PDF Document with the Acrobat Viewer JavaBean today.java.net

A PDF document is commonly opened in Acrobat Reader to edit, view, and print. But when you need to open a PDF in a Java application, Acrobat Reader is not accessible. Fortunately, Adobe provides a viewer API, the Acrobat Viewer JavaBean, to view and print PDF documents from Java applications, JavaBeans, or Java applets. The Acrobat classes are provided in the com.adobe.acrobat package of the Acrobat Viewer distribution. In this tutorial, we shall integrate the Acrobat Viewer in a Java application. We'll open an example PDF document in the application with the Acrobat Viewer, and discuss the different features of the Acrobat Viewer.

3. Generating PDFs for Fun and Profit with Flying Saucer and iText today.java.net

PDFs are one of the most common and most significant document formats on the internet. Typically, developers must use expensive tools from Adobe or cumbersome APIs to generate PDFs. In this article, you will learn how to programmatically generate PDFs easily with plain XHTML and CSS using two open source Java libraries: Flying Saucer and iText.

4. Generate PDF files from Java applications dynamically ibm.com

Many applications demand dynamic generation of PDF documents. Such applications range from banks generating customer statements for e-mail delivery to readers buying specific book chapters and receiving them in PDF format. The list is endless. In this article, we will use the iText Java library to generate PDF documents. I'll take you through a sample application so you can do it yourself and understand it better.

5. PDF and Java developer.com

Java servlets are an effective mechanism for creating Web applications. Such applications often require manipulation of HTML documents before serving them to the browser. Such manipulations are quite common for servlets, CGI and other server-side technologies and often require data extraction using HTML tags as delimiters. Text-processing algorithms and utility programs (e.g., AWK, scripting languages, and regular expressions) can be used to complement the capabilities of servlets and CGI programs. But what about PDF? This article is an overview of using Java to interact with PDF files.

6. Digital Short Cuts: Concise, PDF documents on cutting-edge new technology informit.com

Technology is evolving faster than ever. As a technical professional, you need to know more than ever, and you need to know it now....which is why we publish "Short Cuts," your short cut to technical mastery. Short Cuts are short, concise, PDF documents designed specifically for busy technical professionals like you. Each Short Cut is tightly focused on a specific technology or technical problem. Written by industry experts and best-selling authors, Short Cuts are published with you in mind — getting you the technical information that you need — now. Download Introduction to Short Cuts to see samples from seven Short Cuts.

7. Tools of the Trade, Part 1: Creating PDF documents with iText > Create PDF Documents with iText informit.com

I developed and tested this article's Java applications using J2SE 5.0 (via Sun's SDK command-line tools) and iText 1.3. I used Adobe Reader 6.0.1 to view PDF documents created by these applications. Windows 98 SE was the underlying platform.