Apache FOP
Apache XML Graphics FOP (by apache)
iText
[DEPRECATED] Core Java Library + PDF/A, xtra and XML Worker. Only security fixes will be added — please use iText 7 (by itext)
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| Apache FOP | iText | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 166 | 1,561 | |
| 1.8% | 0.4% | |
| 7.5 | 0.0 | |
| 10 days ago | 3 days ago | |
| Java | Java | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Apache FOP
Posts with mentions or reviews of Apache FOP.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-21.
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Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
I've served dynamic content directly as PDF with https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
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Why didn't Microsoft release Windows 9? - ChatGPT explains the theory.
Java software was sometimes often a particularly bad offender because java made it even easier to do this shit. Here's an example from people that really should have known better.... https://searchcode.com/file/19737045/fop-1.0/src/java/org/apache/fop/fonts/autodetect/WindowsFontDirFinder.java/ - https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
iText
Posts with mentions or reviews of iText.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
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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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I interviewed Bruno Lowagie, who successfully commercialized his FOSS library, iText, between 2008 and 2018, for Code Code Ship: “Commercializing iText had a significant impact on the quality of the library”
So, the case study would be an optional request/collaboration, but slapping your logo on their site (as seen on their home page just below the fold) is not written as optional. Say what you will about AGPL, but if you're a paying customer, this should be an easy provision to strike from the agreement if requested. They declined and our internal legal team refused to accept the agreement as a result and so we found a different provider.
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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?
When comparing Apache FOP and iText you can also consider the following projects:
Apache PDFBox - Mirror of Apache PDFBox
flyingsaucer - XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java
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.