Re: RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF

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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