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no image displayed using Flying Saucer API in maven project

I am using Flying Saucer API with iText PDF to convert HTML content to PDF.

This requires the following libraries:

  • core-renderer.jar
  • iText-2.0.8.jar

Since the library doesn't support input type checkbox so I am using checkbox image to render in PDF.

However, image is not coming. It is showing nothing.

Resources in flyingsaucer-R8.zip.

Example: 

 StringBuilder myHtml = new StringBuilder(); 
 myHtml.append("<html><img src=\"images/invoice-bg.jpg\"></img></html>");
// if you have html source in hand, use it to generate document object
Document document = XMLResource.load( new ByteArrayInputStream( 
myHtml.toString().getBytes() ) ).getDocument();

ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument( document, null );

renderer.layout();

String fileNameWithPath = "D:/Temp/PDF-XhtmlRendered.pdf";
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream( fileNameWithPath );
renderer.createPDF( fos );
fos.close();
System.out.println( "File 1: '" + fileNameWithPath + "' created." );
Solution

  • Gave the complete path to the image and then it worked.

    I checked this by directly hitting the following URL:

    http://localhost:8001/userApi/resources/images/invoice-bg.jpg

    This might help someone if faced with similar issue-

     StringBuilder myHtml = new StringBuilder(); 
 myHtml.append("<html><img 
 src=\""+serverName+"/userApi/resources/images/invoice-bg.jpg\" 
 style=\"margin-top:-4px;\" ></img></html>");
// if you have html source in hand, use it to generate document object
Document document = XMLResource.load( new ByteArrayInputStream( 
myHtml.toString().getBytes() ) ).getDocument();

ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument( document, null );

renderer.layout();

String fileNameWithPath = "D:/Temp/PDF-XhtmlRendered.pdf";
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream( fileNameWithPath );
renderer.createPDF( fos );
fos.close();
System.out.println( "File 1: '" + fileNameWithPath + "' created." );