Document-Rendering in Java

Question

I want to render MSWord, PDF, HTML, etc to an image (e.g. TIFF) from server-side Java.

Most available products are shareware printer drivers, and so not suited to a commercial server app: I'd like the library which is robust, well-supported, performant, and concurrent.

Any suggestions for open-source or commercial libraries?

Answer 1

Seems that somewhere in this API, iText, you'll be able to render a PDF to an image. For HTML you may consider Flying Saucer (but the project looks deadish). Shame that JWebPane isn't ready yet.

For MSWord ... no clue.

Answer 2

Refer to these:

• A good library for converting PDF to TIFF?;
• Export PDF pages to a series of images in Java; and
• Java library for converting Word documents to PDFs or images .

And if you didn't find them in a search don't feel bad, you probably just used the SO search instead of googling for "site:stackoverflow.com convert pdf image java" (etc).