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Re: Creating PDF output on demand
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Re: Creating PDF output on demand


  • Subject: Re: Creating PDF output on demand
  • From: Nathan Walker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 13:08:25 -0500

How about http://www.secondmove.com/WebPDFReports/ The license is only $39 dollars and is worth every penny. It makes using PDF in WO very easy and straightforward. Definitely worth checking out.

--
Nathan


On Dec 3, 2005, at 3:25 AM, Lachlan Deck wrote:

Hi there,

On 01/12/2005, at 11:19 PM, Helmut Tschemernjak wrote:

we have a similar problem for WO generated forms, reports, etc. One idea is the following:

Capture the HTML output from a generated page and save this to an HTML temp file, automate Safari or FireFox to open and print this document via AppleScript, capture the PostScript output via a cups backend filter and convert it via the OS X "pstopdf" tool or Distiller into PDF.

I would prefer FireFox because in printouts the page wraps of tables better than Safari.

Are there any better ideas?

For a server app you don't really wanting to be involving desktop software do you? It'd be more desirable to utilise a Java library or command line utility that you could pipe the input/output.


If you've got your generated html you could try something like htmldoc which supposedly converts html to PDF or Postscript.
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/


If on Mac OS X and using DarwinPorts:
$ sudo port install htmldoc

That ought to cut out most of the above steps. You want the process to be as simple as possible...

with regards,
--

Lachlan Deck


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