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Posted to users@myfaces.apache.org by david delbecq <de...@oma.be> on 2008/01/10 23:03:49 UTC
Re: make pdf using JSF
After quick check, seems seam is a bit of big framework to add for just
pdf, does not support jdk 1.4 (>=5.0 only), and anyway there doesn't
seem to be seam component that add text at specific location of an
existing document, which is my aim. (It will be generated by a fill the
form, get a prefilled PDF form to print web page).
Any other suggestion?
Thank you.
En l'instant précis du 06/08/07 11:37, Mikael Andersson s'exprimait en
ces termes:
> Haven't tried this myself yet, but Seam can generate PDFs.
>
> http://docs.jboss.com/seam/2.0.0.B1/reference/en/html/itext.html
>
> - Mike
>
> On 06/08/07, *David Delbecq* <delbd+jakarta@oma.be
> <ma...@oma.be>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> i come across a requirement where i need to generate a PDF, by adding
> text at specific location inside an existing pdf. I thought about
> using
> a servlet that does it using itext. However, after turning on my
> brain,
> i think it would be very interresting if you could instead do
> something
> like this in a JSF/Facelet application:
> <x:pdf value="#{someBinaryDocument}">
> <x:page number="1">
> <x:outputText value="#{someBean.property}">
> <some classical JSF converter>
> </x:outputText>
> </x:page>
> </x:pdf>
>
> I know how to create binary output from a JSF component (get
> outpustream, set headers, set responseComplete())
>
> Oracle ADF has a telnet renderer, i suppose there could exist some PDF
> based renderers out there. Interest would be to generate PDF output as
> easily as html output. It does not seems so difficult to implement
> a few
> PDF based JSF components using itext. However, i'd like to prevent
> stupid double work if this stuff already exist somewhere.
>
> Anyone know of existing library for this?
>
> --
> http://www.noooxml.org/
>
>
--
David Delbecq
Institut Royal Météorologique
Ext:518
Re: make pdf using JSF
Posted by david delbecq <de...@oma.be>.
david delbecq a écrit :
> After quick check, seems seam is a bit of big framework to add for
> just pdf, does not support jdk 1.4 (>=5.0 only), and anyway there
> doesn't seem to be seam component that add text at specific location
> of an existing document, which is my aim. (It will be generated by a
> fill the form, get a prefilled PDF form to print web page).
>
Lol, we are currently coding that exact set of component at work, cause
we found no existing framework to do it. We too found seam and we too
dropped it because it was new document only and too heavy. If you find
an existing framework using the itext stampers (overlay information on
top of existing pdf page) for computer aided text form filling, we'll be
happy to use it and save on development time.
> Any other suggestion?
>
> Thank you.
>
> En l'instant précis du 06/08/07 11:37, Mikael Andersson s'exprimait en
> ces termes:
>> Haven't tried this myself yet, but Seam can generate PDFs.
>>
>> http://docs.jboss.com/seam/2.0.0.B1/reference/en/html/itext.html
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>> On 06/08/07, *David Delbecq* <delbd+jakarta@oma.be
>> <ma...@oma.be>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> i come across a requirement where i need to generate a PDF, by
>> adding
>> text at specific location inside an existing pdf. I thought about
>> using
>> a servlet that does it using itext. However, after turning on my
>> brain,
>> i think it would be very interresting if you could instead do
>> something
>> like this in a JSF/Facelet application:
>> <x:pdf value="#{someBinaryDocument}">
>> <x:page number="1">
>> <x:outputText value="#{someBean.property}">
>> <some classical JSF converter>
>> </x:outputText>
>> </x:page>
>> </x:pdf>
>>
>> I know how to create binary output from a JSF component (get
>> outpustream, set headers, set responseComplete())
>>
>> Oracle ADF has a telnet renderer, i suppose there could exist
>> some PDF
>> based renderers out there. Interest would be to generate PDF
>> output as
>> easily as html output. It does not seems so difficult to implement
>> a few
>> PDF based JSF components using itext. However, i'd like to prevent
>> stupid double work if this stuff already exist somewhere.
>>
>> Anyone know of existing library for this?
>>
>> --
>> http://www.noooxml.org/
>>
>>
>
>