How to convert HTML with CSS inline to PDF?

[laerciooliveira]

Staff need to get a report that an HTML that comes in the form of a String of bank and convert it to PDF. I'm using the tag for that <p:html> css but loses all formatting. Anyone know how to keep the formatting?
Below my code:

<p:paragraph>
    <p:html>
      <h:outputText value="#{classHome.getHtml()}" escape="true"  />
    </p:html>
</p:paragraph>

[lvdberg]

Hi,

The library used by Seam can do a lot for you, but don't expect that it is able to transfer a complete html-view to a 100% correct PDF-view. If it comes from anoher site (that's what I understand), just render it in an IFRAME and put a print button in the surrounding frame. In that way you use the renderer of your OS which render and prints the page for you. You can even install a PDF-Writer which taks care of printing it to PDF.

Leo 

[laerciooliveira]

Leo van den Berg wrote on May 24, 2011 09:29:


Hi,

The library used by Seam can do a lot for you, but don't expect that it is able to transfer a complete html-view to a 100% correct PDF-view. If it comes from anoher site (that's what I understand), just render it in an IFRAME and put a print button in the surrounding frame. In that way you use the renderer of your OS which render and prints the page for you. You can even install a PDF-Writer which taks care of printing it to PDF.

Leo 

The problem is that document is a HTML stored on database. We use an HTML editor to save/edit the documents. With this approach we can show the document easily on the application but now we need generate a PDF with the content file.

Can someone suggest a solution for this? Do you recommend another Java API to do this?

Thank you in advance.