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Converting HTML To PDF Using IText

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Answer : Why your code doesn't work As explained in the introduction of the HTML to PDF tutorial, HTMLWorker has been deprecated many years ago. It wasn't intended to convert complete HTML pages. It doesn't know that an HTML page has a <head> and a <body> section; it just parses all the content. It was meant to parse small HTML snippets, and you could define styles using the StyleSheet class; real CSS wasn't supported. Then came XML Worker. XML Worker was meant as a generic framework to parse XML. As a proof of concept, we decided to write some XHTML to PDF functionality, but we didn't support all of the HTML tags. For instance: forms weren't supported at all, and it was very hard to support CSS that is used to position content. Forms in HTML are very different from forms in PDF. There was also a mismatch between the iText architecture and the architecture of HTML + CSS. Gradually, we extended XML Worker, mostly based on requests from customer...
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Creating A Pdf File In Android Programmatically And Writing In It

Answer : So apparently the code I was using wasn't compatible with android, hence the error I was getting. Below you'll find the correct code that actually works right (for creating a pdf file, putting some content in it, saving in and the opening the newly created file): PS: For this you'll need to add the jar of iTextG to your project: // Method for creating a pdf file from text, saving it then opening it for display public void createandDisplayPdf(String text) { Document doc = new Document(); try { String path = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath() + "/Dir"; File dir = new File(path); if(!dir.exists()) dir.mkdirs(); File file = new File(dir, "newFile.pdf"); FileOutputStream fOut = new FileOutputStream(file); PdfWriter.getInstance(doc, fOut); //open the document doc.open(); Paragraph p...
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