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Exporting data in applet grid and graphs inside applet from jsp to pdf.

Asked by: suneelchetty

Hi,

In our web application we use applets inside jsp using object tag and display the results in grid and graphs.Now we need to expor the data from jsp to pdf. Is there any open source tool to export this.

Please suggest me on this.

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2009-10-30 at 02:54:59ID24857504
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JSP to PDF.

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Answers

 

by: TomasHelgiPosted on 2009-10-30 at 03:06:38ID: 25701477

     Hi!

You can use iText for that ( http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ ).

Also here are some PDF examples that you can look at
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/PDF-RTF/CatalogPDF-RTF.htm
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Servlets/Pdf.htm

Hope this helps.

Regards,
   Tomas Helgi

 

by: TomasHelgiPosted on 2009-10-30 at 03:08:13ID: 25701485

Other open source pdf libraries can be found here
http://java-source.net/open-source/pdf-libraries

Regards,
   Tomas Helgi

 

by: suneelchettyPosted on 2009-11-03 at 21:40:30ID: 25736705

Hi TomasHelqi,

I found iText will suit my requirement but how to move the applet inside the object in jsp to pdf. I don't find any thing which will do this. Please help me in this reagard. Inside jsp I just use the object tag which will automatically inserts the applet. This applet extends panel for drawing the grid.

Is there any tag in iText which I can use to export the applet object  or which converts HTML to pdf.

Thanks & Regards,
Sunil

 

by: TomasHelgiPosted on 2009-11-04 at 00:28:31ID: 25737367

    Hmmm.

Do you mean that the grid and graph are displayed in the applet itself or the jsp page ?

Regards,
    Tomas Helgi

 

by: suneelchettyPosted on 2009-11-04 at 01:24:52ID: 25737617

Hi TomasHelqi,
Yes I mean the same i.e. both the grid and graph are in applet and we display that in jsp.
Now how to export the same to pdf.
Please help me in this regard.

Thanks for your immediate response.

 

by: TomasHelgiPosted on 2009-11-04 at 02:51:42ID: 25738038

        Hi!

I suggest you put (if you can ) a "pdf - button" which prints the JTable (assuming that the grid is in that object) into a PDF file
and hands it ower to the user.
Here is an example on how to do that
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/PDF-RTF/PrintJTabletoPdfdirectly.htm
You can do similar things with Graphs.
Other PDF examples you should look at are here
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/PDF-RTF/CatalogPDF-RTF.htm

Regards,
    Tomas Helgi

 

by: suneelchettyPosted on 2009-11-04 at 04:56:01ID: 25738784

Hi Tomas Helgi,
Thanks for helping me again.
Can u suggest me  the approach like exporting the applet and graphs to jpeg and then exporting the jpeg to pdf. Can u help me in exporting the applet to jpeg inside jsp.

Thnks & regards,
Sunil

 

by: TomasHelgiPosted on 2009-11-04 at 05:16:50ID: 25738953

           Hi!
     What you need is a client side scripting to create a PDF file.
 I found this on the web  and you could probably use is it.
 http://www.collinssoftware.com/Pdf_Samples_1.htm

Regards,
   Tomas Helgi

 

by: TomasHelgiPosted on 2009-11-04 at 05:23:08ID: 25738998

An open source Javacript that does this can be found here
http://code.google.com/p/jspdf/
http://jspdf.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/basic.htm

I didn't notice until to late that the other javascript costs a lot.

Regards,
    Tomas Helgi

 

by: suneelchettyPosted on 2009-11-04 at 22:08:15ID: 25747088

Hi TomasHelqi,
Thanks a lot for spending lot of time in answering me but the two links which u provided was useful but the problem is that the former link is paid one and there is no free trial of that and the later one does not run on IE. Our application supports only IE. But your suggestions are highly appreciated.

Is there any alternate solution which I can come out from this problem.

Thanks & Regards,
Sunil

 

by: TomasHelgiPosted on 2009-11-05 at 01:24:20ID: 25747821

          Hi!

The other solution which is would be browser-independent is, as I suggested before (ID:25738038),
to have a "pdf-button" in the Applet.
A button that creates and prints out the PDF file.
It's simple to implement this as the first provided example shows. :)

Regards,
    Tomas Helgi

 

by: suneelchettyPosted on 2009-11-05 at 01:40:55ID: 25747892

Hi Tomas,
Even I tried that in a stand alone program it is working fine but in my while loading  applet it is throwing error as : com.lowagie.text.Document class not found exception. Even though I kept the jar inside my web-inf/lib folder. Is it necessary to add the jar file any where else.

In my application all the applet class files are inside jar file and when this applet tries to acces this class it is throwing the error. Can u suggest me where to keep the jar.

Thanks & Regards,
Sunil

 

by: TomasHelgiPosted on 2009-11-05 at 01:57:30ID: 25747963

       Hi!

Hmmm.
You should try either to put the iText jar file in the applet archive similar to this

<applet codebase="."
            code="TestApplet.class"
            archive="MyApplet.jar, iText.jar"       
            name="MyApplet"       
            id="MyApplet"       
            height="0"       
            width="0">       
</applet>

Or try to put it in the domains (running your web app) or Application Server global lib directory.
 
Regards,
   Tomas Helgi  

 

by: suneelchettyPosted on 2009-11-05 at 21:42:08ID: 31647917

Thanks for his patience in answering all my queries.

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