Convert HTML to PDF, server side
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Topic: Convert HTML to PDF, server side
Posted By: jabaltie
Subject: Convert HTML to PDF, server side
Date Posted: 19 Mar 09 at 9:08AM
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Hello !
I'm looking for a way to convert a HTML , just generated from dynamic content on server-side, to PDF. This is an alternative to using a PDF template to stuff data and generate a PDF with dynamic content. Using HTML would be way, way simpler and more versatile than PDF with empty form fields. Anyway, can I use QuickPDF to convert a HTML string to PDF ? Can QuickPDF render the HTML into a page image and then to PDF ? If not, what is a robust method of doing it ? I have seen this product : http://www.verypdf.com/htmltools/index.html#dl It's very interesting but also, very , very expensive. Can not afford that ! Thanks for any suggestions ! |
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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 19 Mar 09 at 9:28AM
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Hi! Why not use one of these "html to image" components or commandline-tools and then QP-function AddImageFromFile? Cheers, Ingo |
Posted By: jabaltie
Date Posted: 19 Mar 09 at 10:39AM
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Hi Ingo ! Thanks for your answer ! Interesting approach. I'll have a look at it. This product seems nice : http://www.sharewareconnection.com/html-to-image-converter-command-line.htm Thanks again ! |
Posted By: Ruturaaj
Date Posted: 14 Aug 09 at 6:05AM
This approach will help making PDF, but then Reader won't be able to search the content. He/she also won't be able to select some part of content as text to copy and reuse. So, if you're just looking for "view only" PDF then that's fine; else, you really need to look for some other (and better) alternatives. |
Ingo wrote:Posted By: fchivu
Date Posted: 11 Jun 10 at 2:02PM
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You can try this [html to pdf] library or the [free html to pdf] online service
Moderator edit: links removed.
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Posted By: Ruturaaj
Date Posted: 11 Jun 10 at 2:33PM
Thanks for your links to the appropriate products which I'm sure you've posted in good faith and highly encouraging intention of helping others. With due respect to your intentions and initiative to help others in their problems, personally I feel that posting links to other products in this Forum should be avoided as I don't find it ethical. This forum is dedicated to the discussion related to Quick PDF Lib and coding issues related to Quick PDF Lib. If there is something that Quick PDF is not capable of doing for you then post it as a request to the the Developer's team and they will surely listen to your thoughts. My personal experience with the Dev team is excellent; they not just listened to me but I also can see the requested features added to lib. Of course, I don't want to say that the feature additions are because of my suggestions ... it may or may not be the case. The point is ... personally, I don't find it good to see links to other products in this forum. Please don't misunderstand me ... it's just a friendly talk; no offense really. :-) Once again, it's really great to have people like you around who are willing to help other programmers/QP developers in their coding issues. Regards, Ruturaaj. |
Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 14 Jun 10 at 6:20AM
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Hi Ruturaaj! Yes. You're right. It's very close to spam. I didn't delete it to show other users what kind of posting we don't want ;-) Cheers, Ingo |