FileWriter and PDF

[Gaelle]

Hi !

I am running a web application that has to create a pdf file from its binary flow.
Here's what I have done :

File ftest = new File("temp.pdf"
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(ftest);
fw.write(strTemp);
fw.close();

All this works perfectly... but when I call my PDF from a web browser, it doesn't start Acrobat Reader at all, but displays the binary flow.

How can I change this ?

Thanks,
Gaelle.

 

[Krolsky]

well i'm not a superb programmer or so but what i do know is this. You make a file called temp.pdf, but in this case it doesn't matter what name you put in there. It could as well be temp.txt or whatever.whatever.

The problem that i see in here is that you think you create a .pdf file, but you are actually just creating a file with information in it. The temp.pdf you make has nothing to do with the .pdf standard.
You could just try to open a .pdf file that you already have in a text-editor to see that it does not contain just plain text

So i guess you will have to find some program that will convert the contents of temp.pdf into a real .pdf file.


good luck with it
i will keep watching this thread to learn from it myself.

greetz,
Krolsky

(please correct me if i'm wrong, i'm learning still )

 

[iSeriesCodePoet]

That would be correct. Mike Wills
AS400 Programmer

http://www.koldark.net

Please, if you find my post useful, let me know.

 

[meadandale]

You need to use a PDF converter like HTML2Doc.

 

[Gaelle]

Hi there !

Thanks to anyone that has helped me !
After all, I managed to have it working. In fact, my program was forgetting the first character of my binary flow, which was %, before %PDF1.2, and so PDF script wasn't interpreted.
It finaly works !