Re: RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard is that part of iPDF?

Charles

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually our RPG2PDF API is meant to replace O specs in an existing RPG
> program and write directly to a PDF instead of a print file.
>
> It does work with relatively exact positioning, but we have a framework
> sample which allows an RPG programmer to simulate what they would be
> doing in a plain old report output.
>
> In the background we map to the lower level iText calls to do the
> physical PDF generation, so here's another vote for iText :-)
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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>
> message: 7
> date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:16:14 -0800 (PST)
> from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: [WEB400] RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF
>
> > 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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