如何将html页面的内容转成pdf

Question

I am trying to get or download the content of my html page that contains a lot of information(tables..) into pdf file. i try using this code but the got me the information as html information(with tags).

Q : How to do get this content into a pdf? here is my code :

try{
    File file = new File("C:/Users/Hamza Amrani/Desktop/riad/testFile1.text");
    FileWriter writer_f = new FileWriter(file);
    URL url = new URL("http://localhost:8090/afficher?id=3");
      BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
      String line;

      while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
         System.out.println(line);
         writer_f.write(line);
      }
      reader.close();
      writer_f.close();
    }
    catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
}

Answer 1

First of all your question is not clear. If you want to write a full a html page in pdf, then the code for getting html contents from URL is correct . But for writing this contents in a pdf file, you will need iText , a Java library which allows to create PDF, read PDF and manipulate them. You can follow this tutorials to understand about iText :

• Creating PDF with Java and iText - Tutorial
• iText – Read and Write PDF in Java

But if you need to parse a HTML page like getting information inside a <h1> tag, you will need a HTML Parser . jsoup is the best solution for this problem. Follow this links for better understanding about jsoup :

• Jsoup Tutorial and Examples
• jsoup Example Tutorial – Java HTML Parser

Hope this will solve your problem.