[ale] HTML -> PS -> PDF

[J.M. Taylor]

I don't know if this will work with J2EE, or if you can do system calls, 
or if you're on linux...but...htmldoc (http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/) 
makes nice pdfs from html.  AFAIK, you'd just write out the HTML, then do 
a system call (ick ick...be sure it's secure) to htmldoc which ought to 
spit out a pdf in the same directory.

To deliver it, use the right content types 
header('Content-Type: application/pdf; name="report.pdf"');  
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="report.pdf"');
(where header() is however j2ee presents headers to the browser)
and output the pdf. 

Good luck.

jenn

On 31 Mar 2004, Chris Fowler wrote:

> I'm creating a J2EE app in which the user can generate reports.  I want
> to generate a report in HTML format and store in /tmp as temp file.  I
> then want to somehow convert that to PDF maybe I have to go the PS
> first.  
> 
> After I do that I will send their browser headers that indicate I'm
> sending them a file.  The will then be prompted to save to disk or load
> in Acrobat or in our (ale.org) case xpdf.
> 
> Any pointers?
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