Re: Using pd4ml to transform HTML to PDF

Hi Nathan,

<Vendor>
Just enquiring about the source of your reports - are you creating reports
on the i then converting to HTML and then to PDF ?

If you would like to directly use your reports in PDF - in a web
application, without any change of code, please look us up -
www.systsoft.com/redistribute . Our Re-Distribute software has been designed
for end users simplicity. It also converts reports to Charts & Excel CSV
which can be viewed online in a browser, or automatically emailed in batch.

Please do contact me at vaibhavj@xxxxxxxxxxxx if you would like to take this
further.

</Vendor>

Best Regards,
Vaibhav

Systsoft Systems & Software
Mobile : + 91 - 98208 80525
Email : vaibhavj@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web : www.systsoft.com
Phone : + 91 - 22 - 2829 0803 , 2829 0075
Address: Unit 123, SDF 4, SEEPZ, Mumbai - 400096, India.




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date: Tue, 11 May 2010 10:26:43 -0700 (PDT)
from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: [WEB400] Using pd4ml to transform HTML to PDF

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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