Hi Frank,
Thanks for your suggestion.
My actual requirement is to display the print preview of the contents of
the original page in the dynamically generated popup html page. For
this, I am reading the contents of the parent page through "innerHTML"
and outputting the contents in the popup (through document.write).
Now, in IE, by default, the background color is not printed unless you
explicitly set the same in the settings. But our client does not want
each and every user to change the setting manually.
So, they have suggested this approach of sending the data to PDF,
instead of HTML.
With best regards,
Anjishnu.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:34 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Converting HTML content to PDF
Ah, your doing something even less typical :)
There really is no easy way to do this... once your on the client, about
the only way to generate a PDF would be if the user had Acrobat, or a
suitable substitute available, one that exposes a print driver (i.e.,
Print to PDF functionality).
Two options I can think of... first, is there any reason you have to
generate the document on the client? If not, I would suggest looking at
any of the PDF generation packages out there, iText being the one I've
personally used, and do it on the server. You say "open this
dynamically generated window". which I take to mean that you pop a new
window and write to it. If that's correct, how you would do it instead
is open the window, and set its source to an Action, which does the PDF
generation. You then write it to the response stream and it will show
up in the window, assuming the user has a suitable plugin installed.
Alternatively, you could generate it on the client, but then send the
result to the server to generate and send back. This is really a pretty
bad idea IMO, so I'd be going with option A for sure. But again, maybe
you have some good reason for doing it on the client, in which case I
doubt you'll find many options... *maybe* an applet that could grab the
written contents of the document body and generate a PDF, but even that
would be way more work than it needs to be.
Generate on the server, that's the simplest and best answer :)
Frank
Anjishnu Bandyopadhyay wrote:
Hi Frank,
I am generating the HTML page from my JavaScript file through
"document.writeln()";
I want to open this dynamically generated window in a PDF document.
With best regards,
Anjishnu.
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank W. Zammetti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 11:22 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Converting HTML content to PDF
Hi,
Setting the content type is not sufficient to generate a PDF... are
you
trying to output a PDF from an existing HTML file, or are you
dynamically generating the HTML? You say you aren't using JSP, so I'm
thinking your either forwarding to an HTML page, or generating it in
your Action. While there are HTML to PDF converters, I'm not sure
which
if any could be called from a webapp, and even so, typically
dynamically
generated PDF doesn't make a stop as HTML first, so it might help to
understand a little better what your trying to do to offer some
suggestions. But, it is definitely more than just the content type.
Frank
Anjishnu Bandyopadhyay wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to programmatically convert an HTML file to pdf
dynamically;
by setting the content type. But, I am not being able to succeed.
Any pointers regarding the same will be of much use.
Please note that, I am not using a JSP here. (So that, I could be
able
to set the "content" of the "response").
With best regards,
Anjishnu.
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