In addition to a Java Swing and HTML Renderer, JAXFront offers a PDF-Renderer, which enables you to display documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF), as well as print them in the desired page layout.
The JAXFront PDF-Renderer is not included in the standard package and needs to be licensed as an additional component. If you do not have a licensed PDF-package and you are interested in it, please contact us. JAXFront will provide a demo package and examples to demonstrate the power of PDF-Renderer.
PDF Renderer
The JaxFront PDF-Renderer is used for printing of XML-instance files The PDF-Renderer visually prepares the data contained in an XML document and permits no manipulation of the data.
The PDF-Renderer is based on the Open-Source-Framework iText and offers visualization of the XML data, which may be generic as well as adaptable by the user.
PDF XUI
Data representation may be user specific. For this purpose, JAXFront provided a special XUI (pdf.xui) with its own XML schema (pdf.xsd).
The PDF-Renderer has its own XUI definition. This definition differs from the general XUI, due to the fact that only its global settings can be changed. Layout- and behavior specific definitions on component level are not available for the PDF-Renderer.
However, when the the PDF-Visualizer is produced, the general XUI definitions for the respective component are read and converted. The visual result is similar to the one produced by the Java Swing Renderer. Thus, you do not need to redefine the XUI definition for the component. You can achieve an attractive visual result with the help of global settings only.