RE: HTML to PDF Generator (X-Server on i) -- MIDRANGE-L

I wonder how difficult it would be to get wkhtmltopdf
working on i in Pase?

Well, I stopped considering it when I read, under Features, "... the X11
client must be installed." I am not administrator on the systems that I
use, so haven't had opportunity to work with this. But I'm fairly certain X
client is lacking on the standard i installation.

Brings up an interesting question. Has anyone on this list successfully
installed and exercised an X server on their System i?

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will
sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Thanks Dennis...I wonder how difficult it would be to get wkhtmltopdf
working on i in Pase? I also checked out htmldoc and that looks like it
might be a little easier to get working. I'll report back on Aaron's
product
shortly.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Dennis Lovelady
<iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I'm curious, Aaron, since you did not mention either in the article

nor in

the accompanying installation .zip what the capabilities are: Will

this

tool
handle images and the like, or does Michael need another solution for

that?

Thanks for sharing, but where would I find capabilities, limitations,
caveats, et cetera for the tool?

Michael, a web search turned up wkhtmltopdf
(http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf), but the setup for that on i

may be

daunting. Looks interesting, though, and if I had the rights I would
certainly like to give it a go!

Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
--
If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would

be

stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill,

in the

fog.

You can check out my free/opensource HTML2PDF4i tool. I developed

it

earlier this year and wrote an article about it.

http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/webexclusive/32493p1.aspx

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

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Here's my situation. I will be receiving a document in HTML

format

enclosed

within an XML element. I need to take that HTML file and insert

an

<img>

tag. I then need to convert the HTML file to Postscript and/or

PDF

for

printing and storage. I'd like an open source solution (for the

PS/PDF

generation) that runs under QShell/Pase. Any ideas? Thanks!

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