Re: RPGCGI - Convert HTML page to PDF

[Scott <scottgcampbell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm using FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org/) to generate PDFs on Zend on the i 
and it works great.  I just did a quick look and found a project that 
does just what you are looking for:

http://html2fpdf.sourceforge.net/

And an article describing it

http://macronimous.com/resources/Converting_HTML2PDF_using_PHP.asp

Scott

On 2/25/2010 7:20 AM, 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
>