Nathan,
PD4ML does require a commercial license to purchase it.
We had a guy spend ages sodding about with BIRT.
I just wanted an off the shelf solution at best, or one that required little development effort and no learning curve and no guru to understand how the whole PDF implementation works.
While my ego hates to pay for something, I had PD4ML integrated into production before he could even begin explaining how BIRT installed/worked let alone what training would be involved.
Once in production I have been able to walk away from this and other developers have done little more than add a PDF button to their existing web pages.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Tuesday, 2 March 2010 8:34 a.m.
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] html2pdf4i was-->Re: RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF
Peter, Aaron, it sounds like you are pioneers in this area of converting HTML to PDF under IBM i. Have you considered offering a supported commercial license? We could use a service like Peter talked about, communicating via *DTAQ, generating PDF documents from RPG programs.
-Nathan.
----- Original Message ----
From: Peter Connell <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Mon, March 1, 2010 11:48:39 AM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] html2pdf4i was-->Re: RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF
Sounds pretty much like the install for the purchased PD4ML product except images don't need a qualified domain.
Like many things, getting a prototype to run is often straight forward enough. The devil is usually in the detail of an integration into existing production that performs well.
Be warned about running headless java in the same job that may need to load a PASE routine.
Peter
midrange.com
