how to generate pdf file

[yogesh m gaikwad]

sir,
i have a jsp page.
and on same page when i am click on submit,
the same page pdf format will be generated for printing purpose...
i am waiting

[Chetan Dorle]

Can you elaborate your problem and what needs to happen ?

[Sai Hegde]

There are many Open source packages that can be used for dynamic pdf generation in java viz. itext, fop, pdfbox.

[Tim Moores]

PDFBox is not particularly useful for creating arbitrary PDFs; iText is, but it would be a lot of effort to use its API to create PDFs mirroring arbitrary HTML pages. If you're creating CSS-styled XHTML, then the FlyingSaucer library might fit the bill.

[Sai Hegde]

PDFBox is not particularly useful for creating arbitrary PDFs

what do you mean by that?

[Tim Moores]

PDFBox's API makes it very hard to create PDF files that correspond to arbitrary HTML files, because it does not have high-level APIs for various HTML constructs, like tables. That would make it very hard to use for this.

[Sai Hegde]

oh okay, I agree... There would be a coding effort involved to get it done using pdfBox