To put Joeri’s answer into context, have a look at the Adobe technical white paper Adobe Acrobat 9 Digital Signatures, Changes and Improvements, especially its section “Allowed and disallowed changes.” Here Adobe clarifies the allowed changes (as seen by Acrobat 9 and up) that can be made to a certified or signed document without invalidating … Read more
To indicate to the browser that the file should be viewed in the browser, the HTTP response should include these headers: Content-Type: application/pdf Content-Disposition: inline; filename=”filename.pdf” To have the file downloaded rather than viewed: Content-Type: application/pdf Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=”filename.pdf” The quotes around the filename are required if the filename contains special characters such as filename[1].pdf … Read more
Why your code doesn’t work As explained in the introduction of the HTML to PDF tutorial, HTMLWorker has been deprecated many years ago. It wasn’t intended to convert complete HTML pages. It doesn’t know that an HTML page has a <head> and a <body> section; it just parses all the content. It was meant to … Read more
Since API Level 21 (Lollipop) Android provides a PdfRenderer class: // create a new renderer PdfRenderer renderer = new PdfRenderer(getSeekableFileDescriptor()); // let us just render all pages final int pageCount = renderer.getPageCount(); for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++) { Page page = renderer.openPage(i); // say we render for showing on the screen … Read more
EDIT: New Suggestion HTML Renderer for PDF using PdfSharp (After trying wkhtmltopdf and suggesting to avoid it) HtmlRenderer.PdfSharp is a 100% fully C# managed code, easy to use, thread safe and most importantly FREE (New BSD License) solution. Usage Download HtmlRenderer.PdfSharp nuget package. Use Example Method. public static Byte[] PdfSharpConvert(String html) { Byte[] res = … Read more
This is quick, easy, to the point and doesn’t require any third-party script: <embed src=”http://example.com/the.pdf” width=”500″ height=”375″ type=”application/pdf”> UPDATE (2/3/2021) Adobe now offers it’s own PDF Embed API. https://www.adobe.io/apis/documentcloud/dcsdk/pdf-embed.html UPDATE (1/2018): The Chrome browser on Android no longer supports PDF embeds. You can get around this by using the Google Drive PDF viewer <embed src=”https://drive.google.com/viewerng/ … Read more
Have a look at wkhtmltopdf . It is open source, based on webkit and free. We wrote a small tutorial here. EDIT( 2017 ): If it was to build something today, I wouldn’t go that route anymore. But would use http://pdfkit.org/ instead. Probably stripping it of all its nodejs dependencies, to run in the browser.
If you want to export data to a pdf file, using iText (as your tag indicates) there are various options. You can use the core API, which allows you to insert tables, lists and text. For more information you can consult http://developers.itextpdf.com/content/itext-7-jump-start-tutorial/examples You can export to HTML, and then use pdfHTML (newest iText add-on) to … Read more
Here is a minimal answer that should resolve your problem. I did reduce the code to the necessary parts since I needed to test it myself and I didn’t have access to classes you used. You should make the code in the question as minimal as possible when asking a question, so it is easier … Read more
Check this out http://www.techumber.com/2015/04/html-to-pdf-conversion-using-javascript.html Basically you need to use html2canvas and jspdf to make it work. First you will convert your dom to image and then you will use jspdf to create pdf with the images. EDIT: A short note on how it work. We will use two libraries to make this job done. http://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ … Read more