spring boot demo pdf

simple project to test pdf generation from html templates

maven dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.xhtmlrenderer</groupId>
    <artifactId>flying-saucer-pdf-itext5</artifactId>
    <version>9.1.22</version>
</dependency>

basic usage

Load html template as resource, do some processing, then call te pdf library

limitations

• only inline css will be honored
• css3 features not available (flex and flex-grid are unavailable)
• images and resources external to the html document will not be loaded

further reading

• stackoverflow
• examples on github