Re: RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On my TODO list is to integrate a BIRT created template and make it
occupiable (new word?) by RPG through calling Java from a data queue.  This
would allow business users to create a report using a graphical tool, with
named variable placeholders, and then an RPG programmer would write a
program that feeds a canned Java program the values for the variables and
the Java would communicate with the BIRT template (which is Java based I
believe).

In the end an approach like that would be better fitting vs. risking odd
transformations of a HTML to PDF approach like you and Scott are mentioning.

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


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > From: Simon Coulter
> > Umm ... maybe it's just me but why would you do it this way? Surely
> > the correct approach is to build the PDF from the original data not
> > try to convert HTML to PDF.
>
>
> It may help if someone were to speak up about generating PDF files
> directly.  If I recall correctly the API offered by RJS seems rather complex
> when it came to absolute positioning and & GUI formatting.
>
> I really like externally defined CSS and Dreamweaver for HTML formatting,
> and transforming HTML templates to stream files, using variable substitution
> with RPG.  So much easier.  CSS, in particular can be applied to all types
> of reports - simply by reference.
>
> -Nathan.
>
>
>
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