Hi

Might be barking up the wrong tree, but recall having this happen to me when I
was developing our solution, and vaguely recall the issue was with the [lack of
a or wrong] namespace handler.

Believe I originally had renderer.setDocument(htmlDoc) or renderer.setDocument(htmlDoc, url) but the code is now

... renderer.setDocument(htmlDoc, url, new XhtmlNamespaceHandler()); ... Our total method is (I usually use jDom, hense the Document to Document twist in
the middle): public static void createPDFFileFromDoc(String inputFileName, String
outputFileName) throws DocumentException, IOException, JDOMException { SAXBuilder sb = new SAXBuilder(); /* This is needed to avoid a Connection timeout on the DTD */ EntityResolver er = sb.getEntityResolver(); if (er == null) { sb.setEntityResolver(FSEntityResolver.instance()); } DOMOutputter outputter = new DOMOutputter(); org.jdom.Document html = sb.build(new File(inputFileName)); org.w3c.dom.Document htmlDoc = outputter.output(html);

OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outputFileName); String url = new File(inputFileName).toURI().toURL().toString();

ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer(); /* * Following produces output that is not quite correctly formatted.
Specifically, columns are not correct. * renderer.setDocument(htmlDoc, url, new
XhtmlCssOnlyNamespaceHandler()); * * However, the following works! */ renderer.setDocument(htmlDoc, url, new XhtmlNamespaceHandler()); renderer.layout(); renderer.createPDF(os); os.close(); }

And does exactly what we need. I tried a couple of the other NamespaceHandler
interface implementations provided, but this is the only one that implemented
the column /table formatting etc correctly for us.

Regards...Andrew

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Subject Getting blank PDF's

Hi David, the closing tag issue that you point in your email was just a mistake when I copied the HTML into my first email. If I'd tried to generate the PDF with this html I'd received the following error:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "body" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</body>".

And the PDF file would be not generated at all.

My problem is different, FS generates a blank PDF file without report any error, and having the right xhtml for input.

Any other idea? :(