You could do a hybrid where they press a button and you queue a job from the iSeries to print the PDF.
If you're open to commercial solutions we offer a native PDF printing component for i.
Couldn't you also just render the HTML nicely in the browser and let them print directly from the browser ?
Save the maps as an image file and they should render nicely in the browser.
You should also be able to put a button on your web page.
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date: Wed, 29 May 2013 09:29:21 -0400
from: "Jack Tucky" <jacktucky@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Printing a web page on a kiosk
We have a web page for our customer that is a large non-profit cemetery.
This particular app runs on a kiosk at the welcome center. You can enter the deceased name, search the database, and we return the burial information as well as a PDF (from the IFS) containing a map of the plot.
In order to print the complete page, the customer clicks a print button to print the HTML burial information, then they have to click the PDF viewer print icon.
We need to make it easier to use. All of the examples I found on the web for printing the PDF from HTML don't work reliably. They put the PDF in an iframe and then use printWithDialog, but I can't get them to work on I.E.
They work sometimes on Chrome.
One thing we are considering is converting the PDF to HTML on the fly. I suppose that would have to be a java call on the Iseries?
Thanks, Jack
midrange.com
