Use FOP to convert XML to a PDF. This article explains how you can use FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) to convert XML data to a PDF document, which can then be printed on a user\'s default printer.
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The use of intranets has enabled employees operating in offices spread across the globe to access a centralized application at their company headquarters. The ability to create and print documents over their company\'s intranet would prove to be valuable functionality for such employees.
With such functionality in place, what would happen if a user (say in Japan or India) wants to print hundreds of PDF documents using a default printer from a centralized application that runs on servers in the U.S. Opening each PDF with Acrobat Reader and printing all the documents individually would not only be time consuming, but also tedious. A solution that fires multiple PDFs to the default printer so the user doesn\'t need to open Acrobat Reader would prove most helpful.
Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) is an open source Java API that can convert your XML data directly into reports in PDF format. The software is developed under the Apache XML Graphics Project and is free to use. This article shows you how to convert raw data (from Oracle Database) to XML, which, in turn, is converted to reports in PDF format. It is assumed the user has a basic understanding of technologies like Java, XML, BEA WebLogic Server, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), FOP, Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT), and Oracle Database.
The figure below gives an overview of the flow of data. The XML data along with the XSL file forms the input to the FOP processor, which in turn is configured using the userconfig.xml for Unicode fonts.
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