pdf-generation

My program generates relatively simple PDF documents on request, but I'm having trouble with unicode characters, like kanji or odd math symbols. To write a normal string in PDF, you place it in brackets: (something) There is also the option to escape a character with octal codes: (\527) but this only goes up to 512 characters. How do you encode or escape higher characters? I've seen references to byte streams and hex-encoded strings, but none of the references I've read seem to be willing to tell me how to actually do it. Edit: Alternatively, point me to a good Java PDF library that will do

I'm working with ExpertPDF's Html-to-PDF conversion utility for this question (although I'm open to other libraries if there's sufficient documentation). In short, I have a view that is formatted a specific way and I would like to render it as a PDF document the user can save to disk. What I have so far is a PrintService (which implements an IPrintService interface) and this implementation has two overloads for PrintToPDF(), one that takes just a URL and another that takes an HTML string, and both of which return a byte[]. I've only worked out the details of the second overload which requires

Is there any function in PDFBOX API to make text justified or we have to do it manually?? and if manually then how to justify text using java(logic behind it) mkl This older answer shows how to break a string into substrings fitting into a given width . To make the sample code there draw the substrings in a manner to fill the whole line widths, replace as follows (depending on the PDFBox version): PDFBox 1.8.x Replace the final loop for (String line: lines) { contentStream.drawString(line); contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount(0, -leading); } with this more elaborate one: for (String line:

I'm working with ASP MVC and i use iTextSharp to generate PDF's in my application. But now i have a problem: I printing lists and when exist more than one page, i want to show the page number (ex.: Page 1 to 4 ). I found some examples, but i think it is more complexes than i need to do (like exameple ). EDIT: I found this example 2 . I can count number of pages, but i cant print the number in pages. What i did: public ActionResult downloadListaISCC(DateTime? DataFimFiltro) { //Code to generate list to PDF //My document Document doc1 = new Document(); doc1.SetPageSize(iTextSharp.text.PageSize

I am a PHP developer and in one of my projects, I need to convert some HTML documents (about 30 to 50 pages) into PDF documents. My search has turned up the following possible solutions. Among them are some PHP libraries and some command line applications. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. PHP libraries: fpdf (need more effort to convert) tcpdf (need more effort to convert) html2fpdf http://html2fpdf.sourceforge.net html2pdf http://html2pdf.fr/ dompdf http://code.google.com/p/dompdf/ (compared to other, works well) For each library, I have problems like: Takes a long time (more