By Vasudev Ram
[ UPDATE: I emailed the author of clj-pdf and instant-pdf, and he told me two things: 1) the instant-pdf bug mentioned below seems to be due to a Clojure JSON library (see the comments on this post), and does not occur when clj-pdf is used directly, and 2) clj-pdf uses the iText PDF library for generating PDF. ]
Saw this via proggit (programming.reddit.com):
clj-pdf is a Clojure library for PDF generation.
instant-pdf is a RESTful web service for PDF generation, built using clj-pdf. It supports JSON for markup. Interesting approach.
It has a fairly large JSON syntax for many elements of PDF, like metadata, text, paragraphs, chapters, colors, tables, etc.
I tried it out a bit. What I tried mostly worked, except for one issue - pasting a DOS directory listing into the text box (for the content section), resulted in PDF output that contained the string "null" instead of backslashes, e.g. for a path like C:\abc\def\some-file.
clj-pdf uses JFreeChart.
P.S. I liked this blog post: WHY ALL THE PARENS, by yogthos, the author of clj-pdf.
- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises
Thursday, August 9, 2012
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2 comments:
As a note the null appears to be a byproduct of the clojure.data.json library I'm using to parse JSON:
(read-json "\"C:\\abc\\def\\some-file\"")
outputs:
"C:nullbcnullefnullome-file"
If the above string is passed to clj-pdf directly then it will be handled correctly.
Thought so, as I said in my email to you just now. From your check, it looks like the json library is not handling backslashes correctly. Thanks for the clarification.
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