Re: RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> But if you are creating the HTML with RPG then I am unfamiliar with the
mechanisms
you have available to redirect the output stream.  Perhaps not so easy in
RPG?

In this case the customer is using CGIDEV2 which can compose HTML to an IFS
file.  I was then going to build a Java program that would accept two parms:
parm1=/path/to/myfile.html and parm2=/path/to/mynewfile.pdf.

If I build something that doesn't already exist, then I will forward you
that work so you can use it in your COMMON presentation if it fits.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would have leaned to iText but they also recently changed their
> licensing model so that may or may not work, in addition to your
> experience with HTML to PDF conversion (I haven't tired it).
>
> Depending upon how you create the HTML, the output to PDF can be easy to
> hard.  I use Java and FreeMarker for almost all of my web development,
> so directing the output to the servlet for HTML or to a PDF an then to
> the servlet for "printed" forms has always been pretty easy.  But if you
> are creating the HTML with RPG then I am unfamiliar with the mechanisms
> you have available to redirect the output stream.  Perhaps not so easy
> in RPG?
>
> But, you have given me an idea of what to add to my Common Presentation
> on Open Source Report Writing Tools.  Let me know what you come up with
> but I'll see what I can do as well.
>
> Pete