iText and HTML tags

Question

I need to know if someone can help me about this cool free PDF generator: iText using JAVA. My request is this: I've a string with html tags such as:

<bold>Hi everyone</bolddd>, my name is <italic>Maurice</italic>.

Is possible to "parse" my string and make the PDF with the correct output about the font (bold, italic, etc etc etc)??

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try the below code...

     String htmlString="<bold>Hi everyone</bolddd>, my name is <italic>Maurice</italic>";
     ArrayList p=new ArrayList();

     StringReader strReader = new StringReader(htmlString);
     Document document = new Document(PageSize.A4, 20, 20, 20, 50);
     PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, new FileOutputStream("filename.pdf"));
     document.open();
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     p = HTMLWorker.parseToList(strReader, null);
     Paragraph paragraph=new paragraph();
     for (int k = 0; k < p.size(); ++k){
         paragraph.add((com.lowagie.text.Element)p.get(k));
     }
     document.add(paragraph);

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     document.close();

Hope this helps...