Re: Using pd4ml to transform HTML to PDF

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

When you run that from QShell does it output any errors?

Do you know if they have some sort of logger (i.e. log4j) that could be
turned on via a command parm?

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Transforming HTML into PDF is something I've been interested in for several
> years.  I'm beginning to put some time & effort into it now because we must
> include PDF reporting capability in a new product, which is intended for
> school teachers, parents, and students.
>
> Aaron Bartell shared some information recently about his HTML2PDF4i
> utility, which I've been able to test on my server.  Now I'm interested in
> testing pd4ml, for comparison purposes.
>
> pd4ml is a commercial product, but they allow a free download of their
> pd4ml_demo.jar file for testing purposes.  So far, I've been able to
> successfully convert a number of HTML pages to PDF via the Pd4Cmd utility,
> running under QSH, using syntax like the following:
>
> java -Xmx512m -Djava.awt.headless=true Pd4Cmd 'http://www.w3.org' 1200
> -out w3.pdf
>
> The Pd4Cmd transforms HTML from an external reference (http://www.w3.org,
> in this case) and generates w3.pdf, which is stored in a local IFS
> directory.  However, when attempting to transform a local (
> http://www.radile.com) HTML document to PDF, the generated PDF is blank,
> except for the "demo watermark", which is evidently a feature of the demo
> jar.  Any ideas about solving this problem?
>
> java -version is "1.4.2"
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Nathan.
>
>
>
>
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