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Online PDF generator now available. This simple but useful online PDF generator tool allows you to generate PDF document online from HTML snippets. The tool uses Flying Saucer library. The PDF is generated with full compression, including meta data in PDF properties. Keep in mind that for successful PDF generation, your HTML markup has to [...]

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In one of my previous posts, I described how I implemented a plug in for Pebble blogging software that allows export of blog entries to PDF. Today, I have made modifications to enable plug in to load font files at run time during PDF generation to provide support for additional non-Latin languages. So now, it [...]

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In my previous post I attempted to generate PDF on the fly using iText library. My goal was to parse HTML snippet into PDF. Unfortunately, as I discovered iText alone is not powerful enough as HTML parser. iText is not flexible enough to manipulate the CSS. Its understandable, since iText‘s main functionality is PDF generation [...]

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I had some time during this weekend, so I used iText, free Java-PDF library to make a plug in for Pebble blogging software. This plug in now allows to export blog entries to PDF document. I liked this library, except one thing – converting HTML snippets to PDF. The library allows you to set styles [...]

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Simon Brown, the creator of Pebble blogging tool has retired. He stepped back due to personal reasons after 5 years of leading the Pebble project. Pebble is an open source blogging tool, written in Java. The following post, is the first post when Simon announced release of Pebble. I have been using Pebble for the [...]

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