help me out with pdf generation

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I want to generate a pdf file for which am using itext but am not using any ide..
I want to make in simple notepad using commmand prompt..
Is there any other way of generating pdf file......
please help..........

Posted 17-Mar-15 13:54pm

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[no name] 17-Mar-15 20:14pm

Alright - you want to generate a pdf file with java and itext. And for whatever reason you want to write your java code in notepad instead of an IDE - fine. But why would not using an IDE stop you from being able to use itext to generate a pdf?

Member 11520467 17-Mar-15 20:28pm

thanks a lot brother but I dont know how to do it....
can you please help me out with this.....

[no name] 17-Mar-15 20:35pm

I don't understand what exactly the problem is.

Member 11520467 17-Mar-15 20:38pm

i dont know how to convert jtable to pdf....

[no name] 17-Mar-15 20:41pm

take a look here:
http://istime4j.blogspot.de/2014/01/export-jtable-data-to-pdf-file-in-java.html

Member 11520467 17-Mar-15 21:11pm

I dont know where to paste the itext jar file which i have downloaded

Member 11520467 17-Mar-15 21:12pm

the error am getting is::::::::::::::::::::
C:\Users\welcome\Desktop\login\report to pdf>javac PDFTest.java
PDFTest.java:6: package com.itextpdf.text does not exist
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
^
PDFTest.java:7: package com.itextpdf.text.pdf does not exist
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
^
PDFTest.java:8: package com.itextpdf.text.pdf does not exist
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
^
PDFTest.java:31: cannot find symbol
symbol: class Document
Document document=new Document();
^
PDFTest.java:31: cannot find symbol
symbol: class Document
Document document=new Document();
^
PDFTest.java:32: cannot find symbol
symbol: variable PdfWriter
PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream("d:/data.pdf"));
^
PDFTest.java:34: cannot find symbol
symbol: class PdfPTable
PdfPTable tab=new PdfPTable(2);
^
PDFTest.java:34: cannot find symbol
symbol: class PdfPTable
PdfPTable tab=new PdfPTable(2);
^
8 errors

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Mar-15 21:49pm

Not using IDE is irrelevant to the problem (of course you can do programming without IDE), and the phrase "I want to make in simple notepad using command prompt" does not seem to make any sense. Do you simply mean "I want to write code using some text editor, not IDE, and build it using only command-line tools"? Than it would make sense. "Command prompt" is just the command interpreter unrelated to command line (surprised? you can use command line with many programs, there is nothing related to CMD.EXE here) and "notepad.exe" is just one of many editors.

I don't know why would you need this, but this can be used for learning. This is how I started to work with Java years ago (but later wrote my own IDE)...

—SA

Member 11520467 17-Mar-15 21:54pm

Thanks Sergey Alexandrovich,
for interpreting my question correctly but my question is yet not solved

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 17-Mar-15 22:06pm

I'm really sorry about that, but you need to do some steps about it. I confirmed that doing all that is quite possible, now you probably need to let us know what have you tried so far and what are your problems. I hope you know how to write text using a text editor. Did you try to do it and build the code?

—SA

(One little thing: sorry for editing your comment above, but it's probably good to know that, in a number of cultures, using improper capitalization (low-case only), especially with personal names, is considered extremely impolite to the people you name. Of course, I'm sure you did not mean anything bad, but I hope this will help you to be more careful about it in future. Thank you for understanding.)

Member 11520467 17-Mar-15 22:13pm

Am sorry for that sir.I didnt knew.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2015-03-17T16:10:00

Solution 1

Please see my comments to the question.

You really can develop Java code using just some text editor and just command-line tool. The main one is javac:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl[^].

See also: http://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall/unixhelp/debuggingtips_Java.html[^].

—SA

Posted 17-Mar-15 16:10pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Member 11520467 · Answer 2 · 2015-03-17T16:37:00

import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.table.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;

public class PDFTest{
JTable table;
JButton button;
public static void main(String[] args) {
new PDFTest();
}

public PDFTest(){
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Getting Cell Values in JTable");
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
String data[][] = {{"Angelina","Mumbai"},{"Martina","Delhi"}};

String col[] = {"Name","Address"};
DefaultTableModel model = new DefaultTableModel(data, col);
table = new JTable(model);
JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(table);
button=new JButton("Save to pdf");
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
try{
int count=table.getRowCount();
Document document=new Document();
PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream("d:/data.pdf"));
document.open();
PdfPTable tab=new PdfPTable(2);
tab.addCell("Name");
tab.addCell("Address");
for(int i=0;i<count;i++){>
Object obj1 = GetData(table, i, 0);
Object obj2 = GetData(table, i, 1);
String value1=obj1.toString();
String value2=obj2.toString();

tab.addCell(value1);
tab.addCell(value2);
}
document.add(tab);
document.close();
}
catch(Exception e){}
}
});
panel.add(pane);
panel.add(button);
frame.add(panel);
frame.setSize(500,500);
frame.setUndecorated(true);
frame.getRootPane().setWindowDecorationStyle(JRootPane.PLAIN_DIALOG);
frame.setVisible(true);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
}

public Object GetData(JTable table, int row_index, int col_index)
{
return table.getModel().getValueAt(row_index, col_index);
}
}

am getting these errors:::::::::::::::::::
C:\Users\Tushar\Desktop\login\report to pdf>javac PDFTest.java
PDFTest.java:6: error: package com.itextpdf.text does not exist
import com.itextpdf.text.Document;
^
PDFTest.java:7: error: package com.itextpdf.text.pdf does not exist
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfPTable;
^
PDFTest.java:8: error: package com.itextpdf.text.pdf does not exist
import com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
^
PDFTest.java:31: error: cannot find symbol
Document document=new Document();
^
symbol: class Document
PDFTest.java:31: error: cannot find symbol
Document document=new Document();
^
symbol: class Document
PDFTest.java:32: error: cannot find symbol
PdfWriter.getInstance(document,new FileOutputStream("d:/data.pdf"));
^
symbol: variable PdfWriter
PDFTest.java:34: error: cannot find symbol
PdfPTable tab=new PdfPTable(2);
^
symbol: class PdfPTable
PDFTest.java:34: error: cannot find symbol
PdfPTable tab=new PdfPTable(2);
^
symbol: class PdfPTable
8 errors