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JavaFx html formatted text in pdf using iText with formatation

Is it possible to set a formatted HTML-Text (Color, Alignment, ...) from a HTMLEditor to an "editable" PDF using iText.

I didn't find anything on the internet.

Thanks.

Solution

  • The easiest way of doing this is (as Amedee suggested) using pdfHTML. It's an iText7 add-on that converts HTML5 (+CSS3) into pdf syntax.

    The code is pretty straightforward:

        HtmlConverter.convertToPdf(
        "<b>This text should be written in bold.</b>", // html to be converted
        new PdfWriter(
            new File("C://users/user2002/output.pdf")  // destination file
        )
    );

    To learn more, go to https://itextpdf.com/itext7/pdfHTML