Hi PDFBox Team, I suppose that my post was not well explained as I have no answer. I will be very happy to use PDFBox in our XDocReport converter (docx-> PDF and odt-> PDF) but develop converter is a big work and I can not investiaget time if I have no support.
The big problem with PDFBox is that it doesn't provide complex widget. Yes we can do it (liek http://fahdshariff.blogspot.com/2010/10/creating-tables-with-pdfbox.html), but IMHO I think PDFBox should provide widgets like table, table-row, chapter, section, etc like iText. I hope you will understand my idea (I apologize if you think I offend you). There is somebody in the XDocReport forum (please see at http://groups.google.com/group/xdocreport/browse_thread/thread/3f453ed7e53f1ebd) who want implement a converter with PDFBox but he doesn't know very well PDFBox. I suggest him to implement at first PDFBox widgets. If he can do it an dif he agree, I think it should be cool if he can contribute to PDFBox widgets. Thank a lot for your help. Regards Angelo 2011/8/12 Angelo zerr <[email protected]> > Hi PDFBox Team, > > I introduce to me. I'm Angelo ZERR, one of developer of XDocRepor > <http://code.google.com/p/xdocreport/>It's Java API to merge XML document > created with MS Office <http://office.microsoft.com/fr-fr/> (docx) or > OpenOffice <http://www.openoffice.org/> (odt), > LibreOffice<http://www.libreoffice.org/>(odt) with a Java model to generate > report and convert it if you need to > another format (PDF, XHTML...). > > * To convert ODT -> PDF, process is to load ODT with ODFDOM and loop for > each Java ODFDOM structure to create iText widget. Please read > http://code.google.com/p/xdocreport/wiki/ODFDOMConverter > * To convert Docx -> PDF, process is to load docx with POI (HWPF) and loop > for each Java HWPF structure to create iText widget. Please read > http://code.google.com/p/xdocreport/wiki/XWPFConverter > > You can play with XDocReport at > http://xdocreport.opensagres.cloudbees.net/processReport.jsp where you can > generate report and convert it to XHTML:PDF (select the converter combo). An > iframe display the result of the report converted. If you change the data > model of the form, iframe is refreshed at runtime. So you can evaluate the > performance of the XDocReport. > > XDocReport provides Java converter for docx and odt. We wish gives our 2 > converter for POI and ODFDOM (soon Apache) but problem is itext license. So > we tell us if we could replace itext with PDFBox to manage converter for odt > and docx. odt and docx can be complex like Table, image in a table cell, > etc... and it seems that PDFPox doesn't support widget Table (just find this > article > http://fahdshariff.blogspot.com/2010/10/creating-tables-with-pdfbox.htmlbut > if we wish manage images in a table cell, etc...I would like avoid > implementing my own widgets). > > For performance have you doen benchmark (itext VS PDFBox). > > Thank a lot for your answer. > > Regards Angelo > >
