Creating PDF file from a String

[faroafro]

Hi, i have to do this thing, create a PDF file from a source that is a String. I'm using iText libraries but i'm not able to do that. My conversion function receive a String representing the pdf file (and of course is illegible if i try to print it). I now that is weird (have a string with the content of the pdf inside) but i have no control to the input parameter. I've tried to create the file with the object PdfReader() (this is the code)

InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(myString.getBytes(encoding));
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(is);

and then write with the PdfWriter but the result is a file illegible (but not empty).

Any idea?

[aaroncarpet]

you have to do it programatically ?

[aaroncarpet]

if you know how to tag the file to make it pdf read the file parse it tag it and save it as a pdf

[aaroncarpet]

open some pdfs in your note pad

[faroafro]

mmm i don't know what you mean, this is the part of the code which write the file:

InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(myString.getBytes(encoding));
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(is);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream("outfile.pdf");
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, fos);
document.open();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
document.newPage();
PdfImportedPage page = null;
page = writer.getImportedPage(reader, 1);
cb.addTemplate(page, 0, 0);
fos.flush();
document.close();
fos.close();

[aaroncarpet]

why are you using pdf reader when you are reading a text file?

[faroafro]

Because the string has inside the bytes of the pdf (is a illegible string), and so i'm not able to transform it to a new file.