Just out of curiosity, why not use Artefact,
https://sites.google.com/site/artefactpdf ?
I haven't looked at the different approaches, but I have this natural tendency against native libraries, if we can do it directly in Pharo. That is why I am asking: why this road and not the other ?
On 21 May 2014, at 14:14, Torsten Bergmann <
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> Hi,
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> tried to wrap the WKHTML library (wkhtmltopdf.org) with NB to easily generate a PDF
> using HTML from Pharo. I think this could serve as an easy printing solution
> for Pharo.
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> Code for an initial wrapper is on
http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/WKHTML2PDF> with a simple class calling the component using NativeBoost. See class "WKPDFLibrary example"
> I used Windows and the wkhtmltox.dll.
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> The C example I follow with only a few function calls is very simple and can be found at
> the bottom of:
http://m.blog.csdn.net/blog/pengqianhe/8089007>
> The component is called, I get correct structs in return - but still no PDF file is generated.
> Currently I cant see the forest for the trees. Maybe someone can have a short look what I'm
> doing wrong.
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> Thanks in advance
> T.
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