[Zope] Re: Newbie: Creating PDF Documents on the fly in Zope

[AM]

How about using an external method and html2pdf

http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/5247/

ie. store the html file in a temp location if you dont need to keep it 
around, convert it and send that back

hth
AM

Ashley Lloyd wrote:

> Thanks for the help.
>
> I've tried that one before. It seemed to work fine until I actually 
> tried to view the PDF (ie add the /html2pdf extension). The page that 
> appears is blank (at least on my machine .. no source code at all - 
> but no "Page Not Found" error either). I looked at the manual, and 
> only the version that you pay for seems to have the functionality that 
> we need. Since we want to try it out before even thinking about paying 
> for a product, that one isn't really an option. Besides, from what 
> I've been told it doesn't allow for page breaks, etc in the way that 
> we'd like.
>
> Thank you once again for your help.
>
> Kind regards
> Ashley
>
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Josef Meile <jmeile@hotmail.com>
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Re: Newbie: Creating PDF Documents on the fly in Zope
> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 19:34:42 +0100
>
> > I have a few pages in Zope generating info gained from an Interbase 
> DB. The
> > pages are fine, except we also want a user to be able to click a 
> button on
> > these pages and generate a PDF document for printing, looking pretty 
> much
> > the same but with all the necessary page breaks and associated
> > headers/footers.
> What's about this how to?
> http://www.zope.org/Members/mjablonski/howtoPDF
>
> It seems to be easy of implement.
>
> Regards,
> Josef.
>
>
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