从URL Java打印pdf

Question

I have to print a pdf from a URL. I had read a lot of websites but, I have not found a solution. I´m using JAVA 7 for my project. Could somebody help me with this problem? (example, website, manual, code)

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

You need a servlet - HTTP listener - that's listening for HTTP GET/POST requests to that URL.

The servlet will need to generate the PDF and write the bytes to the output stream.

You have at least two choices for generating the PDF: XSL-FO, which is a good choice if the data is XML, or iText, a Java library that creates a PDF in code.

If the file already exists on the file system you just need to read the bytes and stream them to the output stream.