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flyingsaucer
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CSS for Printing to Paper
I have been creating print labels with plot/cut lines using css and I used browsers to covert it to PDF. The experience was terrible. While all was perfect on my 1-page proof print, both large browsers messed up the final document (with a few hundred labels on several pages).
Firefox forgot to render images after a few pages. So on some labels the barcodes were not printed.
Chrome looked good at the fist glance. But it turned out that the plot/cut lines (which I created via CSS borders) had been shifted by 1-2mm on _some_ pages. Result was garbage.
I finally switched to https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer which is a high quality HTML/CSS to PDF library. Only drawback is that it only supports CSS 2.1, so some fancy features are not supported like rotating text.
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Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS
I've used flying saucer pdf[1] for this in the past, but the missing piece always seems to be a descent WYSIWYG template editor. Either open source or paid.
Any suggestions on a web solution that allows non-devs to make great templates would be appreciated.
Historically I've built something simple with Tiny and added a preview button to render, but that super clunky.
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is thymleaf still used
Same, we also use it in conjunction with Flying Saucer PDF to produce PDF reports.
- How do i convert html file to pdf file using java(fx)?
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Is Jasper still the best Report Engine?
Personnaly, I'm a big fan of Flying Saucer.
iText
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PDF rendering server-side using HTML 5 + CSS 3
Are you looking for a way to render PDF's or produce them? If you want to produce PDF's, I've used https://pdfbox.apache.org/ successfully as well as https://itextpdf.com/ (potentially costs money).
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How do i convert html file to pdf file using java(fx)?
Not really a JavaFX question as JavaFX is a UI framework. Your question is therefore just related to Java. To answer that I've seen a similar feature from IText (https://itextpdf.com) or OpenPDF (https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF) as an open source alternative. Maybe take a look at those for a start and check if they provide you what you're looking for.
What are some alternatives?
Apache PDFBox - Mirror of Apache PDFBox
OpenPDF - OpenPDF is a free Java library for creating and editing PDF files, with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText. We welcome contributions from other developers. Please feel free to submit pull-requests and bugreports to this GitHub repository.
Apache FOP - Apache XML Graphics FOP
Open HTML to PDF - An HTML to PDF library for the JVM. Based on Flying Saucer and Apache PDF-BOX 2. With SVG image support. Now also with accessible PDF support (WCAG, Section 508, PDF/UA)!
Dynamic Jasper - Dynamic Reports using Jasper Reports
Konik - A library to create, read and validate ZUGFeRD compliant invoices. Available for Java and .NET
itext-pdfsweep-java - Remove content from your digital documents irretrievably instead of just covering it up. Redact text, images, parts of images or drawings for complete confidentiality. iText pdfSweep complies with GDPR for data redaction.