Hi, There is a feature in development that allows you capture binary data offline as Blob via a captureBlob() method into your localserver, please stay tuned for the future releases. Thanks.
Austin On Oct 23, 7:01 pm, Lenbok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a gears application that allows the user to generate a > "report" while offline. Currently, this is an html page generated by > javascript on the fly, which the user then prints. We now have the > requirement that the reports be saved. Because the data from which > the report is generated may be subsequently edited, we want to save as > close the the printable representation as possible. > > Our holy grail solution would consist of: > > 1) Find/write a javascript PDF generation library > > 2) Store generated PDF data in gears such that it can be served by > LocalServer. > > 3) Point user to the apropriate url which gets served by the > LocalServer, and they thus get prompted to save/print/open the PDF as > they wish (while offline). > > 4) Later synchronize the PDF data (either from LocalServer or > separately stored in database) back to the server. > > For step 1), we could potentially fallback to writing a javascript > wrapper around alivepdf (although pointers to a pure-javascript > solution are most welcome). > > For step 2) - is it possible to programmatically insert arbitrary data > (i.e. the PDF data) + mimetype into a ResourceStore (or otherwise > serve client-side generated binary data)? > > Steps 3 and 4 don't seem to present any particular problem. > > So the meat of my question is, how can we accomplish step 2 with gears > while offline? > > Cheers, > Len.
