Creating PDF in Java

Benefits

• Convert printable documents to PDF at high speed.
• Support for 64-bit versions of Windows 2003/2008/Vista/XP.
• PDF/A Standard support for long term archiving of electronic documents.
• PDF/X Standard support for exchange of print-ready PDF files in printing/advertising industries.
• XPS Support (Supports XPS to PDF conversion. Requirement: .NET Framework 3.0 or above).
• Automatic and CSS-driven pagination (smarter page break, developers can also manually control whether they want to have page break or not).
• Automatically handle any exception or error message that may occur in converting HTML and Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio) to PDF.
• Support many PDF features such as Font Embedding & Subsetting, Image compression, Metadata, PDF Security (e.g. set permission to print, edit), Digital Signature & Stamping, Watermark, PDF Viewer setting.
• Control printer settings such as graphic resolution & scaling, paper orientation & size, printer color.

Sample Project File

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• Read the API Specification

/*
This program demonstrates easyPDF SDK ability to convert a file with supported format to a PDF file.
Usage: java TestPrintJob [input file name] [output file name]
*/

import com.bcl.easypdf.*;
import com.bcl.easypdf.EasyPDFPrinter.*;
import java.io.File;

public class TestPrintJob
{
	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
	{
		if (args.length == 2)
		{
			File inputFile = new File(args[0]);
			String inputFileName = inputFile.getCanonicalPath();

			File outputFile = new File(args[1]);
			String outputFileName = outputFile.getCanonicalPath();

			EasyPDF.initialize();

			IPrinter printer = new IPrinter();
			IPrintJob pj = printer.getPrintJob();
			pj.PrintOut(inputFileName, outputFileName);

			EasyPDF.uninitialize();
		}
		else
		{
			System.out.println("Usage: java TestPrintJob [input file name] [output file name]");
			System.out.println("For example:");
			System.out.println("java TestPrintJob c:\\input\\hello.doc c:\\output\\hello.pdf");
		}
	}
}

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• "It took very little amount of coding to integrate easyPDF SDK into our application, and we haven’t had to change BCL code once!" - Shawn Hess, TAXWORKS

PDF Features

• Creating PDF
• Processing and Manipulating PDF
• Rastering PDF into image
• Processing PDF Form

Sample Projects and Documentation

• Sample Project Files
• BCL easyPDF Java SDK API Specification
• BCL easyPDF SDK Usermanual