[Seaside] Re: WAComponent to PDF

[Paul DeBruicker]

This probably has more of what you're after:

http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~TorstenBergmann/WKHTML2PDF


If you're not on linux there is a was to access wkhtmltopdf via OSProcess in
there as well I think.  If not I can send you what I'm doing.  Which is
basically rendering the component to a file, having wkhtmltopdf do the
conversion, and serving the pdf as a download in a tab that opens after some
polling code posts a link to the PDF.  








HilaireFernandes wrote
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to render WAComponents as PDF documents.
> I took at look at Artefact, but it is an important work to render again
> the data as PDF with Artefact, not to mention I feel it is a duplicated
> work. Moreover, I have quite long documents spanning over several pages,
> some of my tables are complex with some columns spanning over 2 or 3
> columns and I have about 50 different documents to turn as PDF file.
> 
> Now I am think about rendering these components on dedicated pages, then
> using wkhtmltopdf.
> What I would do is get these components rendered at dedicated urls, then
> call wkhtmltopdf with these urls as arguments.
> Practically how will you do that? How to forge an URL for a page
> rendering the component with a dedicated decoration for PDF conversion
> (dedicated css, header, footer)?
> My initial though is REST. Is it the right direction? Or are there other
> options?
> 
> Thanks for tips, enlightenment or thought on the matter.
> 
> Hilaire
> 
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