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It is quite useful for brochures, reporting and invoicing - create a HTML webpage and use it for both a downloadable PDF or for the users to view.
The service will convert webpages to pdfs online by reading your webpage or taking the HTML you send it, and dynamically generate a PDF or an image. It will handle fairly complex documents and layouts including images and executing javascript, although as always the simpler the better.
package com.mypackage;
import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
public class RocketAPI {
/**
* Rocket Java API Example
* Run thru commandline
* Param 1: APIKey
* Param 2: URL or HTML add quote if you have spaces. use single quotes instead of double
* Param 3: Any extra params you want to add i.e &extra1=value&extra2=value
*
*/
static String BaseURL="https://api.html2pdfrocket.com/pdf";
public static void main(String[] args) {
String API="";
String Value="";
String FileName="";
String ExtraParams="";
if(args.length>0) API=args[0];
if(args.length>1) Value=args[1];
if(args.length>2) FileName=args[2];
if(args.length>3) ExtraParams=args[3];
getFile(API,Value,FileName,ExtraParams);
}
private static void getFile(String APIKey,String value,String Filename,String ExtraParams){
URL url;
String Params="";
try {
if(ExtraParams!=null&&!"".equals(ExtraParams)){
Params=ExtraParams;
if(!Params.substring(0,1).equals("&")){
Params="&"+Params;
}
}
value=URLEncoder.encode(value,java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8.toString() );
value+=Params;
// Validate parameters
if(APIKey==null||"".equals(APIKey)) throw(new Exception("API key is empty"));
if(Filename==null||"".equals(Filename)) throw(new Exception("Filename is empty"));
// Append parameters for API call
url = new URL(BaseURL+"?apikey="+APIKey+"&value="+value);
// Download PDF file
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
InputStream Instream = connection.getInputStream();
// Write PDF file
BufferedInputStream BISin = new BufferedInputStream(Instream);
FileOutputStream FOSfile = new FileOutputStream(Filename);
BufferedOutputStream out = new BufferedOutputStream(FOSfile);
int i;
while ((i = BISin.read()) != -1) {
out.write(i);
}
// Clean up
out.flush();
out.close();
System.out.println("File "+Filename+" created");
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}catch (Exception e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
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The number #1 reason a conversion fails is because it contains an references to external links or images that doesn't exist. If there is a conversion error, please check the page using your webbrowsers 'developer' network tab to ensure there are no 404 errors.