Notes/Domino XPages Development Forum - what's the best way to generate PDF in this scenario?

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~James Asawemaroni

Dec 13, 2011, 11:50 AM

37 Posts

what's the best way to generate PDF in this scenario?

Category: Other
Platform: All
Release: 8.5.3
Role: Developer
Tags: itext,fop,html,rich text
Replies: 1

In this days I have analyze for my project the best solution for create PDF file.

In my project I have different Xpages (9 Xpages at this moment) and I would create an engine based on template (XML, PDF an so on..) that convert every Xpages to PDF document (with Header, Footer, Pager and so on )

In every Xpages I have different type of field (radio, text, check) and always RichText Field (ckeditor)

My first step was Itext solution (I see this custom control ):

But seem that Itext don't work well with AcroField RichText (there are only this API for write ....richtextl)

So that Now I think that the best solution is the FOP FOP Project but I don't know how use it in Xpages.

For you what's the best solution in Xpages to create PDF with content HTML?

~Lily Kihipisonetsi

Dec 13, 2011, 12:10 PM

261 Posts

Re: what's the best way to generate PDF in this scenario?

Daniele,

In a recent project I"ve been using wkhtmltopdf to generate PDF files. It can convert HTML files to PDF using a simple command line interface. I think it can also handle streams, but I haven't used that. I just created a temporary HTML file, let wkhtmltopdf convert it to PDF and removed the HTML file.

Mark