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.

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