Generating a pdf from JSP

Once you have your pdf generated do the following:

byte[] buffer = new byte[(int) pdfReport.length()];

InputStream fis = pdfReport.getInputStream();

fis.read(buffer);

fis.close();

response.setContentType("application/pdf");

response.setHeader("Content-disposition","inline; filename=report.pdf");

response.setContentLength(buffer.length);

OutputStream output = response.getOutputStream();

output.write(buffer);

output.flush();

Sorry I may have misunderstood you the first time. This is probably what you were looking for.

tadchristiansena at 2007-7-12 19:53:38 >

There are a bunch of different PDF-generation libraries[1], under various licenses. Of these, I've only tried the Apache FOP[2] one, but iText[3] looks pretty good.

[1] http://schmidt.devlib.org/java/libraries-pdf.html

[2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/index.html

[3] http://www.lowagie.com/iText/

glennjia at 2007-7-12 19:53:38 >