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Struts2 PDF Stream v2

Apache PDFBox 2

Starting from 2.0.0, HTML into PDF rendering is done by the openhtmltopdf library which uses the Apache PDFBox 2 to create PDF documents. Apache PDFBox 2 is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents and it is published under the Apache License v2.0.

Apache Struts 2.5

Upgraded to be compatible with Apache Struts 2.5

Java 7

Switched to Java 7

Features Overview

• Direct transformation of HTML, JSP, FreeMarker template and Apache Tiles definition to PDF via Struts2 result
• PDF content styling using CSS
• Support of wide range of characters in PDF thanks to the DejaVu fonts
• Handling of the malformed HTML thanks to the jsoup

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Showcase application can be downloaded from the Maven Central Repository.

Download struts2-pdfstream-showcase

Contributing

Found a bug or have a feature request? Create a new issue or submit a Pull Request.

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Copy following jars into your classpath (WEB-INF/lib):

• struts2-pdfstream-plugin-

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• 2.

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• 0.0.jar

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• jsoup-1.9.2.jar
• openhtmltopdf-core-

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• 0.0.

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• 1-RC4.jar

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• openhtmltopdf-

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• pdfbox-

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• 0.0.

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• 1-RC4.jar

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• pdfbox-2.

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• 0.

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• 0.jar

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• fontbox-

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• 2.

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• 0.

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• 0.jar

If you are using Maven, add this to your project POM:

<dependencies> 
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    <dependency> 
        <groupId>com.amashchenko.struts2.pdfstream</groupId>
        <artifactId>struts2-pdfstream-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1<version>2.30.0</version> 
    </dependency> 
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</dependencies> 

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If you intend to transform Apache Tiles definition additional jar must be included.

For the Apache Tiles 2.x support add the struts2-pdfstream-tiles.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.amashchenko.struts2.pdfstream</groupId>
    <artifactId>struts2-pdfstream-tiles</artifactId>
    <version>1<version>2.30.0</version>
</dependency> 

For the Apache Tiles 3.x support add the struts2-pdfstream-tiles3.

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.amashchenko.struts2.pdfstream</groupId>
    <artifactId>struts2-pdfstream-tiles3</artifactId>

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Usage

1. Install this plugin by adding dependency to your POM or by copying jar jars into /WEB-INF/lib directory.
2. Make your action package extend pdfstream-default package or add pdfstream result type.
3. Use pdfstream result type.

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