This view implementation uses Bruno Lowagie's + * iText package. + * Known to work with iText 2.1.7 as well as its fork + * OpenPDF. + * *
Thanks to Bryant Larsen for the suggestion and the original prototype! * * @author Juergen Hoeller diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/view/document/AbstractPdfView.java b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/view/document/AbstractPdfView.java index 516425c399..f3baaae4ed 100644 --- a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/view/document/AbstractPdfView.java +++ b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/view/document/AbstractPdfView.java @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* - * Copyright 2002-2012 the original author or authors. + * Copyright 2002-2017 the original author or authors. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. @@ -30,13 +30,17 @@ import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView; /** - * Abstract superclass for PDF views, using Bruno Lowagie's + * Abstract superclass for PDF views. Application-specific view classes + * will extend this class. The view will be held in the subclass itself, + * not in a template. + * + *
This view implementation uses Bruno Lowagie's * iText package. - * Application-specific view classes will extend this class. - * The view will be held in the subclass itself, not in a template. + * Known to work with iText 2.1.7 as well as its fork + * OpenPDF. * - *
Note: Internet Explorer requires a ".pdf" extension, as - * it doesn't always respect the declared content type. + *
Note: Internet Explorer requires a ".pdf" extension, as it doesn't + * always respect the declared content type. * * @author Rod Johnson * @author Juergen Hoeller diff --git a/src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc-view.adoc b/src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc-view.adoc index a15e8c3a06..11ff4c1951 100644 --- a/src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc-view.adoc +++ b/src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc-view.adoc @@ -1930,8 +1930,8 @@ dynamically from the model data. The document is the view and will be streamed f server with the correct content type to (hopefully) enable the client PC to run their spreadsheet or PDF viewer application in response. -In order to use Excel views, you need to add the 'poi' library to your classpath, and -for PDF generation, the iText library. +In order to use Excel views, you need to add the Apache POI library to your classpath, +and for PDF generation, the common iText 2.1.7 or its fork OpenPDF (e.g. OpenPDF 1.0.4).