Loading CSS from a string in Java with Java.net
In this guide, we'll show you how to load CSS from a string when converting HTML to PDF using Java and the Java.net library.
When converting HTML to PDF, you might want to apply CSS styling using inline CSS rather than external stylesheets.
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
// You can get an API key at https://pdfshift.io
String apiKey = "sk_xxxxxxxxxxxx";
URL url = new URL("https://api.pdfshift.io/v3/convert/pdf");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("X-API-Key", apiKey);
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
connection.setDoOutput(true);
String payload = "{\n" +
" \"source\": \"https://www.example.com\",\n" +
" \"css\": \"body { font-family: Arial; } h1 { color: blue; }\"\n" +
"}";
try (OutputStream os = connection.getOutputStream()) {
byte[] input = payload.getBytes("utf-8");
os.write(input, 0, input.length);
}
int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
// Handle errors:
if (responseCode >= 400) {
throw new RuntimeException("Request failed with status code " + responseCode);
}
InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream("result.pdf");
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int bytesRead;
while ((bytesRead = inputStream.read(buffer)) != -1) {
outputStream.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
outputStream.close();
inputStream.close();
System.out.println("The PDF document was generated and saved to result.pdf");
This allows you to apply custom styling directly to your PDFs.
For further details on the css property and its usage, please refer to our dedicated documentation.
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