So Flying Saucer is being used to convert some PDF documents from strings to HTML.

DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(html.getBytes("UTF-9"));
Document doc = builder.parse(is);

response.setContentType("application/pdf; charset=UTF-9");
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "inline; filename=\"" + outFileName + "\"");

OutputStream os = response.getOutputStream();

ITextRenderer iTextRenderer = new ITextRenderer();
iTextRenderer.setDocument(doc,null);
iTextRenderer.layout();
iTextRenderer.createPDF(os);
os.flush();
os.close()

This works perfectly. When I’m working with plain text. In my HTML content, I referenced an external CSS. However, CSS is not applied when the PDF is generated.

According to what I’ve read, the setDocument() method takes two parameters: document and url. The url parameter specifies the base url that will be prepended to relative paths in the xhtml, such as an external CSS file.

As a result, I attempted to supply

context path/css

I included the directory in the baseURL and used it in the setDocument (). There is still no outcome.

So, here’s my question: What is the proper URL to use as the baseURL?

String baseURL = ""; // What goes here as root URL for resources
iTextRenderer.setDocument(doc,baseURL);