Re: Creating PDF output on demand
Re: Creating PDF output on demand
- Subject: Re: Creating PDF output on demand
- From: Helmut Tschemernjak <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:35:48 +0100
- Organization: HELIOS Software GmbH
This looks like it offers exactly what is needed to generate straight
forward PDFs from HTML. I will try it right away.
Thanks you for the info.
Helmut
Nathan Walker wrote
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.
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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,
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Lachlan Deck
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