How to save a webpage as PDF ?

[Anoop Nair]

Hi All,

I have a webpage in which there is a "Save" button, which is supposed to save the entire page in PDF format.
The webpage has images, text and also CSS.

I tried using flying saucer and iText. However when using this, the background images (done via CSS) are not coming in the PDF file.

Below is the code I am using. Is there a better way to do this where the entire page can directly be converted to PDF format.

URL pageURL = new URL("http://localhost:8180/myApp/myPage.htm?"+queryStr);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pageURL.openStream()));
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("myTempFile"+request.getSession().getId()+".html"));
String inputLine;
			
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
      bw.write(inputLine);

in.close();
bw.flush();
bw.close();
		
    	
String inputFile = "myTempFile"+request.getSession().getId()+".html";
String url = new File(inputFile).toURI().toURL().toString();
String outputFile = "pdfSave.pdf";
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument(url);
renderer.layout();

try {
	renderer.createPDF(os);
} catch (DocumentException e) {
	  e.printStackTrace();
}