[pgh-pm] [Fwd: Re: PDF Generation from HTML]

[brian janaszek]

Dan and Chris -- thanks.  Both look promising.  Any chance that 
demonstration landed on the web anywhere? 

brian

Chris Winters wrote:

>>---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
>>Subject: Re: [pgh-pm] PDF Generation from HTML
>>From:    "Daniel J. Wright" <Dan at DWright.Org>
>>Date:    Mon, December 19, 2005 1:50 pm
>>To:      "brian janaszek" <bmj at anklebiter.net>
>>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>I'm doing something like that here:
>>
>>  https://www.pairnic.com/serviceagree.m
>>
>>The "dowload pdf version" link generates a pdf copy of the page
>>dynamically whenever you click on it.  This ensures that we don't make a
>>change to the HTML version and forget to update PDF at the same time.
>>
>>Whenever I was researching this, I really couldn't find any good Perl
>>modules that do this sort of thing.  :(    The problem with the things
>>that I fould were that they wanted translate the HTML into some sort of
>>image format and then stick that image into the pdf document.   This led
>>to a lossy conversion.
>>
>>I eventually settled on a non-perl solution.  It was a two-step process:
>>
>>1) Run html2ps:
>>
>>  http://user.it.uu.se/~jan/html2ps.html
>>
>>2) Run ps2pdf:
>>
>>  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/6.50/Ps2pdf.htm
>>
>>
>>Looking through google now, I see there is also a "html2pdf"
>>
>>  http://directory.fsf.org/print/misc/html2pdf.html
>>
>>I'm not sure if I ever tried that or not.
>>    
>>
>
>
>FWIW, I demonstrated the tools used by Dan at the meeting last
>Wednesday when rendering an invoice from HTML to PDF.
>
>I think I tried the html2pdf but it didn't do tables as I wanted, or
>something like that. It was a while ago (~2+ years?) so it may be
>worth checking out.
>
>Chris
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