How To Direct FOP Output To A String That Can Be Written To A Fil e?

[Gary Fix <ga...@unigard.com>]

Hi!
How do I direct FOP output to a string that can be written to a file?
When I use the code shown below, and write it to a file, it cannot be read
by Acrobat reader...
Here is a snippet of what I am using:

	public String convertToPDF(String inputToBeConverted) {
		StringReader inputStringReader	= new
StringReader(inputToBeConverted);
		ByteArrayOutputStream out		= new
ByteArrayOutputStream(); 
		try {
			Driver driver = new Driver();
			driver.setLogger(logger);
			driver.setRenderer(Driver.RENDER_PDF);
			driver.setInputSource(new
InputSource(inputStringReader));
			driver.setOutputStream(out);
			driver.run();
			out.flush();
			out.close();
			driver = null;
		 } catch (Exception e) {
			System.out.println(e.getMessage());
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return out.toString();
	}

thanks!
gary...

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Re: How To Direct FOP Output To A String That Can Be Written To A Fil e?

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Gary Fix wrote:
> How do I direct FOP output to a string that can be written to a file?
> When I use the code shown below, and write it to a file, it cannot be read
> by Acrobat reader...

FOP output is binary, converting it to a character string and
back may result in a different byte sequence. Just don't do this,
use byte arrays unless you relly know what you are doing.

J.Pietschmann


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Re: How To Direct FOP Output To A String That Can Be Written To A File?

[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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RE: How To Direct FOP Output To A String That Can Be Written To A File?

[Victor Mote <vi...@outfitr.com>]

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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