info.bliki.pdf
Class PDFGenerator

java.lang.Object
  info.bliki.pdf.PDFGenerator

public class PDFGenerator
extends java.lang.Object

Create a PDF document from a wikipedia syntax string Uses the Flying Saucer Project and iText Open Source libraries for creating and manipulating PDF.

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	FOOTER
static java.lang.String	HEADER_TEMPLATE

Constructor Summary

PDFGenerator()

Method Summary

void	create(java.lang.String outputFileName, java.lang.String xhtmlText, java.lang.String headerTemplate, java.lang.String footer, java.lang.String titleText, java.lang.String cssStyleText) Create a PDF document from a given rendered XHTML text.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

HEADER_TEMPLATE

public static final java.lang.String HEADER_TEMPLATE

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Constant Field Values

FOOTER

public static final java.lang.String FOOTER

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

PDFGenerator

public PDFGenerator()

Method Detail

create

public void create(java.lang.String outputFileName,
                   java.lang.String xhtmlText,
                   java.lang.String headerTemplate,
                   java.lang.String footer,
                   java.lang.String titleText,
                   java.lang.String cssStyleText)
            throws java.io.IOException,
                   com.lowagie.text.DocumentException,
                   javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException,
                   javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError,
                   org.xml.sax.SAXException

Create a PDF document from a given rendered XHTML text. Example:

 public void testPDF() {
        WikiModel wikiModel = new WikiModel("file:///c:/temp/${image}", "file:///c:/temp/${title}");
        String renderedXHTML = wikiModel.render("a wiki [[Test]] string");
        PDFGenerator gen = new PDFGenerator();
        try {
                gen.create("c:/temp/test.pdf", renderedXHTML, PDFGenerator.HEADER_TEMPLATE, PDFGenerator.FOOTER, "Big Test", "");
        } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
        }
 }
 

Parameters:

outputFileName - the PDF output file name (example: c:/temp/test.pdf)

xhtmlText -

headerTemplate - where titleText and cssStyleText could be inserted (see PDFGenerator.HEADER_TEMPLATE as an example / use MessageFormat#format() format)

titleText - the title of the rendered wiki text

cssStyleText - CSS style text for manipulating the PDF rendering

Throws:

java.io.IOException

com.lowagie.text.DocumentException

java.io.IOException

com.lowagie.text.DocumentException

javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException

javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError

org.xml.sax.SAXException