error with PDFBox in servlets

manpreet Best Answer 3 years ago

**iam trying to generate a pdf of my page contents from doPost method. but my tomcat server fails to start each time

below is my code

@SuppressWarnings({ "deprecation", "resource" })
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

        try{
            String filename="mypdf";
            PDDocument mydoc=new PDDocument();
            PDPage page=new PDPage();

            mydoc.addPage(page);

            PDPageContentStream content=new PDPageContentStream(mydoc, page);

            content.beginText();
            content.setFont(PDType1Font.COURIER_BOLD, 30);
            content.moveTextPositionByAmount(250, 750);
            content.drawString("syllabus");
            content.endText();

            content.close();
            mydoc.save(filename);
            mydoc.close();

            System.out.println("the pdf saved at"+System.getProperty("user.dir"));



        }catch(IOException ie)
        { 
            System.out.println("IOexception"+ie);
        }
    }