<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Mathew<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Trouble is, I need the file on the server because I email it out from there. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There's this<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://w">http://w</A>ww.pdflib.com/products/pdflib-family/pdflib/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Which actually does a pretty nice job but it's commercial software and not cheap ($1120 at current exchange rates). If I had a few clients needing it i'd spread the cost around, but I don't.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Guy<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 24/10/2007, at 1:37 PM, Mathew Robertson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <FONT size="+1"><TT>Hi,<BR> <BR> I have also been in the same situation, but I cant offer any tried-and-tested solution.<BR> <BR> PDF::API2 will do UTF8, but getting that to work with template-driven sites is next to impossible. This is ignoring the fact that most sites now use some javascript to do the right thing.<BR> <BR> The only solution which may work is to automate/script firefox so that it loads the website, then calls the print handler to print a PDF. You could use one of the Firefox extensions for scripting a page-download (eg: <A class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/user/pollak/webpagedump">http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/user/pollak/webpagedump</A>), but hack it to print to a PDF printer (rather than save to disk).<BR> <BR> cheers<BR> Mathew<BR> <BR> <BR> </TT></FONT>Guy Morton wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE cite="mid:AB5B9FB1-5B52-4D12-8545-C8B63F25E7AA@alchemy.com.au" type="cite"> <PRE wrap="">I've been struggling with this for a while so I thought I'd ask here
to see if someone else has come across this problem and found a
workable solution.
I have a client for whom I maintain a number of html-formatted
document templates. These are editable via a web interface using the
tinyMCE editor, which is very groovy and which works well. I use TT
to render these templates into documents for further processing into
PDFs.
HTMLDOC is the application I've used in the past to convert these
documents into PDF, however it does not support unicode and therefore
cannot render chinese characters in documents.
So, what I need is a way to convert my utf-8 charset HTML-formatted
documents into PDF.
Anyone got a suggestion as to what might work?
Guy
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