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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Victor Mote <vi...@outfitr.com> on 2003/04/23 21:11:27 UTC
RE: How To Direct FOP Output To A String That Can Be Written To A File?
Gary Fix wrote:
> How do I direct FOP output to a string that can be written to a file?
Why do you want to do this? Is this what you really want:
http://xml.apache.org/fop/embedding.html ?
Victor Mote
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Re: How To Direct FOP Output To A String That Can Be Written To A File?
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>.
That won't work. PDF is a binary format. You have to use a byte[] if you
absolutely want to keep the whole PDF in memory.
Use:
return out.toByteArray();
On 23.04.2003 21:37:22 Gary Fix wrote:
> Hi Victor,
> Yes, I really do want to output to a String...
> My goal is to return the PDF String to a calling class or application
> instead of directing the PDF straight to a File...
>
> I have another method that directs the PDF output straight to a File and it
> works great...
> But when I try to return a PDF String, then write this to a file (or to the
> console and paste it to a file) for testing, I get a blank page...
Jeremias Maerki
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