PDF Generation

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> Of Martin Beck
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 10:03 AM
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> Subject: [Seaside] PDF Generation
>
> Hi,
> is it possible in Seaside to generate a pdf in any way from a
> html output? I think a way would be to have a component
> renderer which outputs latex or something like that and then
> runs a converter... Any solutions or other ideas, please?
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Martin Beck
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> Subject: Re: [Seaside] PDF Generation
>
> Am Montag 06 November 2006 15:38 schrieb Sebastián Sastre:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > I'm sucessfully using an open source solution called
> ReportManager
> > for PDF generation. It's based on templates you make 'a la Crystal
> > Reports' so I don't know if it's of your interest.
> >
> Uhm, I found it on sourceforge; seems a little bit
> overwhelming. I would have to use FFI to call the library,
> dont I? Do you have a little example?
> What about connecting to an Acrobat Distiller pdf printer?
>
> regards,
> martin
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> 2006/11/6, Martin Beck <[hidden email]>:
>> Hi,
>> is it possible in Seaside to generate a pdf in any way from a html
>> output? I think a way would be to have a component renderer which
>> outputs latex or something like that and then runs a converter... Any
>> solutions or other ideas, please?
>
> We use a special latex renderer for one project. It allows us to use
> the same rendering code for both html and latex. It can get a bit
> tricky in the details when you have a given latex template and you
> need to set latex attributes.

> Martin Beck wrote:
>>>> is it possible in Seaside to generate a pdf in any way from a html
>>>> output?
>>
>> Thanks, I'll try it out. Do you think, its hard to implement? I only
>> need some text and images on each pdf page.
>
> The original question is not clear. Do you actually
> need to convert HTML to PDF? Or, do you have the data
> to generate the HTML, and you're now looking for a
> way to generate a PDF, instead of HTML?
>
> If you just need to generate a PDF with some text,
> have you looked at "SPL PDF Library". See:
>
>     http://map.squeak.org/package/d8fd5e1a-2bb7-4c99-a77e-f945dfce01eb
>
> IIRC, it's licenced under GPL.
>
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> Martin Beck wrote:
> >>> is it possible in Seaside to generate a pdf in any way from a html
> >>> output?
> >
> > Thanks, I'll try it out. Do you think, its hard to implement? I only
> > need some text and images on each pdf page.
>
> The original question is not clear. Do you actually
> need to convert HTML to PDF? Or, do you have the data
> to generate the HTML, and you're now looking for a
> way to generate a PDF, instead of HTML?
>
> If you just need to generate a PDF with some text,
> have you looked at "SPL PDF Library". See:
>
>      http://map.squeak.org/package/d8fd5e1a-2bb7-4c99-a77e-f945dfce01eb
>
> IIRC, it's licenced under GPL.

> Martin Beck wrote:
> >>> is it possible in Seaside to generate a pdf in any way from a html
> >>> output?
> >
> > Thanks, I'll try it out. Do you think, its hard to implement? I only
> > need some text and images on each pdf page.
>
> The original question is not clear. Do you actually
> need to convert HTML to PDF? Or, do you have the data
> to generate the HTML, and you're now looking for a
> way to generate a PDF, instead of HTML?

> Am Dienstag 07 November 2006 18:00 schrieb Yanni Chiu:
>> Martin Beck wrote:
>>>>> is it possible in Seaside to generate a pdf in any way from a html
>>>>> output?
>>>
>>> Thanks, I'll try it out. Do you think, its hard to implement? I only
>>> need some text and images on each pdf page.
>>
>> The original question is not clear. Do you actually
>> need to convert HTML to PDF? Or, do you have the data
>> to generate the HTML, and you're now looking for a
>> way to generate a PDF, instead of HTML?
>
> In fact, I have some kind of report generation. It contains only  
> images and
> text belonging to those images. The place of those is rendered on a  
> normal
> WARenderCanvas through some predefined layouts, which take the  
> given images
> and texts for a given page of the report.
> The editing of those reports (i.e. changing images and texts)  
> happens via
> Scriptaculous meaning we use Drag & Drop and an In-Place-Editor. I  
> managed to
> get a preview view using the same layout code if I removed the  
> generated
> JavaScripts after rending the preview component.
>
> I now wondered whether it is possible to just exchange the renderer  
> of the
> preview view, and it renders to latex, which can easily be  
> converted to pdf.
> The reason is not to duplicate the code for the predefined  
> layouts... (They
> are classes, which render a page on a canvas).
>
> Btw, what is about CSS-styles when converting html to pdf? perhaps  
> it would be
> easier just to write the latex-code into each layout-class and thus  
> duplicate
> the layout style... :(
>
>
>> If you just need to generate a PDF with some text,
>> have you looked at "SPL PDF Library". See:
> tried only the tests and some those generated pdfs looked kind of  
> ugly...
>
> regards and thanks,
> martin
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