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~Zach Quetponesononi

May 27, 2013, 3:53 PM

90 Posts

What's the best way to generate PDF in this scenario?

Category: Other
Platform: All
Release: 9.0
Role: Developer
Tags: PDF Generation
Replies: 3

Working in xpages..... (or could do it in Lotusscript)

I have a document. The document has a couple PDF's attached to it. And a few fields filled in. I need to create one PDF file that :

(a) uses the few fields filled in to generate a cover page in PDF format;

(b) scoop up the PDF attachments and append them to the cover page, making one large single PDF file.

~Cheryl Elhipigenlen

May 28, 2013, 1:09 PM

366 Posts

Re: What's the best way to generate PDF in this scenario?

If you are looking for open source tools versus subscription/paid libraries then I would suggest PDFBOX from Adobe.

http://pdfbox.apache.org/

~Zach Quetponesononi

May 28, 2013, 4:49 PM

90 Posts

Re: What's the best way to generate PDF in this scenario?

Hey Paul, thanks

Say I was willing to pay for a tool that didn't require me to learn Java in the next 30 days? Do you know of any?

~Cheryl Elhipigenlen

May 28, 2013, 5:05 PM

366 Posts

Re: What's the best way to generate PDF in this scenario?

Well, unfortunately even the paid ones are Java Libraries that require some knowledge of Java to implement / use.

I don't have any experience with any others as I always use the ones from APACHE.