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I would have leaned to iText but they also recently changed their licensing model so that may or may not work, in addition to your experience with HTML to PDF conversion (I haven't tired it).

Depending upon how you create the HTML, the output to PDF can be easy to hard. I use Java and FreeMarker for almost all of my web development, so directing the output to the servlet for HTML or to a PDF an then to the servlet for "printed" forms has always been pretty easy. But if you are creating the HTML with RPG then I am unfamiliar with the mechanisms you have available to redirect the output stream. Perhaps not so easy in RPG?

But, you have given me an idea of what to add to my Common Presentation on Open Source Report Writing Tools. Let me know what you come up with but I'll see what I can do as well.

Pete


Aaron Bartell wrote:
I have a customer that needs to take an auto insurance form that was built
with HTML and convert it to PDF so it can be emailed to the customer after
they write the policy. The HTML is created and now I have been tasked with
converting it to PDF.

The main requirement is that everything must run on the IBMi which means I
am looking for a Java tool to accomplish this most likely. There are a
number of tools out there (both free and commercial) and I am wondering if
others have attempted to do this and what you ended up choosing for a
solution. Here are some of the solutions I am looking at right now:

http://pd4ml.com - very simple API and very inexpensive (around $150 US
dollars)

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/06/26/generating-pdfs-with-flying-saucer-and-itext.html

http://www.allcolor.org/YaHPConverter/


Anybody have suggestions on what I have listed or other suggestions based on
your experience?

Aaron Bartell
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com

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