Re: RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF

[Christian Geisert <christian.geisert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aaron Bartell schrieb:
> I have a customer that needs to take an auto insurance form that was built
> with HTML and convert it to PDF so it can be emailed to the customer after
> they write the policy.  The HTML is created and now I have been tasked with
> converting it to PDF.
>
> The main requirement is that everything must run on the IBMi which means I
> am looking for a Java tool to accomplish this most likely.  There are a
> number of tools out there (both free and commercial) and I am wondering if
> others have attempted to do this and what you ended up choosing for a
> solution.  Here are some of the solutions I am looking at right now:

Well, depends on the HTML - if it's rather basic (i.e. no fancy CSS 
based design) I'd try it with Apache FOP (but I'm biased ;-).
First run the html through tidy or nekoXML to get a well-formed xml. 
Then you can use FOP together with an (x)html2fo.xsl stylesheet to 
produce an PDF.

Another idea is to use a java based HTML renderer. Flying Saucer 
(https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net) seems to support even PDF output, 
so this sounds like a good solution.


Christian