将HTML文件转换为PDF

Question

I am using the following code to generate a PDF file of the HTML Report

String url = new File("Test.html").toURI().toURL().toString();
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream("Test.pdf");
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument(url);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(os);
os.close();

I was able to use it on sample HTML files to convert to pdf. But when it comes to my real usage, the HTML content consists of various special symbols, like &,<,> that can't be parsed by XML .

I tried using CDATA, while generating HTML itself, but later found that the text around CDATA is not visible in HMTL.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Answer 1

Have you tried to print to pdf from the browser? Google primo pdf for a program that we'll let you do it.

Answer 2

I don't know if this will help you, but you can use StringEscapeUtils from apache-commons . It has methods for escape and unescape HTML (you may use them to pre-process your HTML before PDF generation).