Re: RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF -- WEB400

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Aaron Bartell schrieb:

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:

Well, depends on the HTML - if it's rather basic (i.e. no fancy CSS based design) I'd try it with Apache FOP (but I'm biased ;-).
First run the html through tidy or nekoXML to get a well-formed xml. Then you can use FOP together with an (x)html2fo.xsl stylesheet to produce an PDF.

Another idea is to use a java based HTML renderer. Flying Saucer (https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net) seems to support even PDF output, so this sounds like a good solution.

Christian

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