Dear list,
1. pdf generation I'd like to learn what people use to generate pdf files. I want to
create pdf from an epl page, with all data from the database.
Take a look at the FOP project from the Apache Group. It's a Java subsystem able to render PDF from a xml file.
http://xml.apache.org/fop/
The way to generate the xml from your epl pages depends on whether you are using Embperl 2 or 1.
Below is a simple schema to achieve this with Embperl 1.3.6:
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my $html;
Execute({
inputfile => 'your_page.epl',
output => \$html,
});$xml_fop = html2fop($html); open F, "> /tmp/page.fop"; print F $xml_fop; close F;
system('/path/to/fop/fop.sh', '/tmp/page.fop', '/tmp/page.pdf');
-]The function html2fop have to manipulate the html and transform the elements into a FOP document. This can also be done with XSLT.
2. Teeing the output to browser / filesystem
Related with this, I'd also like to know whether there's a way to print the html results of the database-driven epl page into a static html file.
The problem I have is that the epl pages are protected, and I don't want to mess with session id and other auth tokens when I use htmldoc. So it will have to output the result sent to the browser also to the filesystem. (Tee'd.)
The above recipe also shows how to do this.
Luiz Fernando B. Ribeiro Engenho Soluções para a Internet +55 11 4485-0136
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