Java create PDF or Image from an invalid HTML

Question

I want to create PDF (or any of image formats [png, jpg, bmp..]) from an 'invalid' HTML file using Java. I googled it and find a tool: iText, and some of tutorials that using iText to create PDF from HTML with Java.

In this tutorial (X)HTML to PDF with Java , it works for a valid HTML correctly and i had a PDF file like this. But if i tried to create PDF from my HTML i had some errors.

First of all my HTML is not well formed and unfortunately does not possible to change. I uploaded it to here and W3C's validator found 28 errors.

My options are:

• First clean and valid my HTML and create PDF soon.
• Find another tool (which works for my problem).
• Your suggestion (using Java).
• Last option; use an another platform (.net, Php, Python etc.) and using Webservices from my application.

Please help me about this issue. Thank you in advance

Answer 1

You could use a tool like http://jtidy.sourceforge.net/ to fix the HTML for you and run iText against the jTidy's output...