HTML to PDF using iText : How can produce a checkbox

Question

I have a simple HTML page, iText is able to produce a PDF from it. It\'s fine but the checkbox is ignored. What can I do about it ?

import java.io.FileOutput         


        

Answer 1

The only alternative I'm aware of at that point is to hack iText. The new XMLWorker should be considerably more extensible than The Old Way (HTMLWorker), but it'll still be Non Trivial.

There might be some magic style tag you can pass in that will show up in a "generic tag" for a PdfPageEventHandler... lets see here...

Reading the code, it looks like a style or attribute "generictag" will be propagated to the ...text.Chunk object via setGenericTag().

So what you need to do is XSLT your unsupported tags into div/p/whatever with a "generictag" attribute that is a string which encodes the information you need to recreate the original element.

In your PdfPageEventHandler's OnGenericTag function, you have to parse that tag and recreate whatever it is you're trying to recreate.

That's just crazy enough to work!