Re: PDF Performance

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe a dumb question, but what about using CSS to establish the print 
layout of a web page, then print through one of the PDF renderers like 
CutePDF or whatever is your favorite?

Maybe also I'm not replying to the topic at hand - sorry, haven't 
followed the entire thread.

Vern

Aaron Bartell wrote:
> I think the scenario is slightly different in that the HTML pages actually
> go through a rendering process (i.e. the HTML is parsed and such) and then
> put into a PDF.  I don't know how much that adds to the process.
>
> In the end I think what Nathan is going for is the ease of creating a nice
> looking web page that can subsequently double as a report without any
> additional work other than running the generated HTML through a conversion
> process.  For those of us that have tried to create nice looking PDF reports
> from scratch using things like iText, you can really appreciate how easy
> tools like HTML2PDF4i make it.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> http://mowyourlawn.com
> http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/
>
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:29 AM, <JDHorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > Anybody try Coolspools? Can't speak to the performance issue with numbers,
> > but it seems much faster than the numbers here.  We have a sales management
> > system that creates 60,000 small pdf's every sunday.  we've been using it
> > for years. I just did a test.  It converted a 130 page spool file to a pdf
> > in 4 seconds (on a 520), a 640 page spool file in 10 seconds.
> >
> > Jim Horn
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