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Jon,
In the last few years, we had to convert HTML into PDF on Windows, Linux and IBMi. There is many of open source out and licensed products out there that work fine for basic HTML and not so complicated CSS, but none give accurate results. If you want to accurately convert a HTML page into PDF, you'll have to use a browser engine directly, and even so, there is differences on HTML+CSS rendering between the major browsers and their own versions.
For IBMi, I ended using iText which is the lead technology to create PDF documents. If you are interested on take this route, I can share the java mappings that I have, which not all, but they will allow you to embed imaged, create lines, circles, embed external fonts and some other basics.
-Jorge
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 8:17 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Printing advice
Many reasons Richard - although that would be an option for the particular job that caused me to post the question - the starting point in many other cases is HTML.
The other issue is that they are Java - and although I could go through the process of prototyping the required methods in RPG I really don't have the time for that right now.
Jon Paris
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On May 20, 2011, at 8:40 AM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Why don't you look into using BIRT or Jasper Reports.
Much easier than hand crafting HTML.
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