Hi there, On 01/12/2005, at 11:19 PM, Helmut Tschemernjak wrote:
we have a similar problem for WO generated forms, reports, etc. One idea is the following:Capture the HTML output from a generated page and save this to an HTML temp file, automate Safari or FireFox to open and print this document via AppleScript, capture the PostScript output via a cups backend filter and convert it via the OS X "pstopdf" tool or Distiller into PDF.I would prefer FireFox because in printouts the page wraps of tables better than Safari.Are there any better ideas?
For a server app you don't really wanting to be involving desktop software do you? It'd be more desirable to utilise a Java library or command line utility that you could pipe the input/output.
If you've got your generated html you could try something like htmldoc which supposedly converts html to PDF or Postscript.
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/ If on Mac OS X and using DarwinPorts: $ sudo port install htmldocThat ought to cut out most of the above steps. You want the process to be as simple as possible...
with regards, -- Lachlan Deck
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