solutions.elevation.camel:camel-openhtmltopdf

camel-openhtmltopdf

A Camel component to generate nice looking PDF files from HTML, CSS, images, etc.

This project is a Component for the Apache Camel open-source integration framework. Its PDF generation capabilities are based on the openhtmltopdf project. Future enhancements may include image and SVG generation.

Usage

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component.

<dependency>
    <groupId>solutions.elevation.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-openhtmltopdf</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1</version>
</dependency>
                

The latest release uses camel-core version 3.11.0 as dependency.

URI format

openhtmltopdf:operation[?options]

Only Producer is suppored.

Options

Option	Description	Default
defaultPageWidth	Default page width to use if not specified in CSS	8.5
defaultPageHeight	Default page height to use if not specified in CSS	11
pageSizeUnits	Default page units to use if not specified in CSS. INCHES, MM	INCHES
defaultTextDirection	Default text direction to use if not specified in CSS	LTR
testMode	Whether to use test mode and output the PDF uncompressed	false
lenientParsing	Use leniant parsing for documents that don't comply with strict XHTML syntax.	true

Operations

pdf

Generate a PDF file from HTML.

Parameter	Type	Description
Body	String, org.w3c.dom.Document	If a string, must be either a URI or (X)HTML content. For URIs, file, http and https are supported.
OpenHtmlToPdfBaseUri	String	Base URI to use for resolving references (images, etc.). If not supplied and a URI was supplied in body, the component will attempt to determine the base URI.