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Posted to users@tapestry.apache.org by Nathan Beemer <na...@gmail.com> on 2009/09/18 02:46:52 UTC
Re: Render Page to file, etc
your suggestion to use servlet Filter was just what I needed... page
pdf render now working
many thanks!
On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Andreas Andreou wrote:
> The process should be:
> 1) render the page to a String, perhaps
> http://www.behindthesite.com/blog/C1931765677/E2094832857/index.html
> can help
>
> 2) convert the html String to pdf, see
> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html and/or
> http://codedeliver.blogspot.com/2009/07/converting-xhtml-html-to-pdf-with-css.html
>
> So, it's possible to create a Tapestry service that will do the above
> and write the pdf
> to the output stream... or, perhaps even better, write a ServletFilter
> that swaps the
> response stream with its own, forwards to the Tapestry servlet and
> when that returns
> does the post-processing (of converting the contents of its internal
> stream from html to
> pdf)
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Andreas Andreou<an...@di.uoa.gr>
> wrote:
>> The process should be:
>> 1
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Nathan Beemer<be...@ksu.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> I have a need to make my Tapestry 4.1 Pages available in pdf
>>> format but
>>> having no luck to-date on my own.
>>> My apologies if soliciting this list is inappropriate here, but I
>>> do have a
>>> consulting budget available to get this done if anyone is
>>> interested.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Andreou - andyhot@apache.org - http://blog.andyhot.gr
>> Tapestry / Tacos developer
>> Open Source / JEE Consulting
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Andreas Andreou - andyhot@apache.org - http://blog.andyhot.gr
> Tapestry / Tacos developer
> Open Source / JEE Consulting
>
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Re: Render Page to file, etc
Posted by Nathan Beemer <na...@gmail.com>.
i'm using pd4ml with no complaints.
not to say there aren't other libraries just as good if not better
On Sep 17, 2009, at 11:28 PM, Andreas Andreou wrote:
> great! So, since you went all the way, which tool / library you
> suggest to convert html to pdf ?
>
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Nathan Beemer <nathan.beemer@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>> your suggestion to use servlet Filter was just what I needed...
>> page pdf
>> render now working
>>
>> many thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Andreas Andreou wrote:
>>
>>> The process should be:
>>> 1) render the page to a String, perhaps
>>> http://www.behindthesite.com/blog/C1931765677/E2094832857/
>>> index.html can
>>> help
>>>
>>> 2) convert the html String to pdf, see
>>> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html
>>> and/or
>>>
>>> http://codedeliver.blogspot.com/2009/07/converting-xhtml-html-to-pdf-with-css.html
>>>
>>> So, it's possible to create a Tapestry service that will do the
>>> above
>>> and write the pdf
>>> to the output stream... or, perhaps even better, write a
>>> ServletFilter
>>> that swaps the
>>> response stream with its own, forwards to the Tapestry servlet and
>>> when that returns
>>> does the post-processing (of converting the contents of its internal
>>> stream from html to
>>> pdf)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Andreas Andreou<an...@di.uoa.gr>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The process should be:
>>>> 1
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Nathan Beemer<be...@ksu.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a need to make my Tapestry 4.1 Pages available in pdf
>>>>> format but
>>>>> having no luck to-date on my own.
>>>>> My apologies if soliciting this list is inappropriate here, but
>>>>> I do
>>>>> have a
>>>>> consulting budget available to get this done if anyone is
>>>>> interested.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Andreas Andreou - andyhot@apache.org - http://blog.andyhot.gr
>>>> Tapestry / Tacos developer
>>>> Open Source / JEE Consulting
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andreas Andreou - andyhot@apache.org - http://blog.andyhot.gr
>>> Tapestry / Tacos developer
>>> Open Source / JEE Consulting
>>>
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>
>
>
> --
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> Tapestry / Tacos developer
> Open Source / JEE Consulting
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Re: Render Page to file, etc
Posted by Andreas Andreou <an...@di.uoa.gr>.
great! So, since you went all the way, which tool / library you
suggest to convert html to pdf ?
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Nathan Beemer <na...@gmail.com> wrote:
> your suggestion to use servlet Filter was just what I needed... page pdf
> render now working
>
> many thanks!
>
>
> On Aug 24, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Andreas Andreou wrote:
>
>> The process should be:
>> 1) render the page to a String, perhaps
>> http://www.behindthesite.com/blog/C1931765677/E2094832857/index.html can
>> help
>>
>> 2) convert the html String to pdf, see
>> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html and/or
>>
>> http://codedeliver.blogspot.com/2009/07/converting-xhtml-html-to-pdf-with-css.html
>>
>> So, it's possible to create a Tapestry service that will do the above
>> and write the pdf
>> to the output stream... or, perhaps even better, write a ServletFilter
>> that swaps the
>> response stream with its own, forwards to the Tapestry servlet and
>> when that returns
>> does the post-processing (of converting the contents of its internal
>> stream from html to
>> pdf)
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Andreas Andreou<an...@di.uoa.gr>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The process should be:
>>> 1
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Nathan Beemer<be...@ksu.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a need to make my Tapestry 4.1 Pages available in pdf format but
>>>> having no luck to-date on my own.
>>>> My apologies if soliciting this list is inappropriate here, but I do
>>>> have a
>>>> consulting budget available to get this done if anyone is interested.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andreas Andreou - andyhot@apache.org - http://blog.andyhot.gr
>>> Tapestry / Tacos developer
>>> Open Source / JEE Consulting
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Andreou - andyhot@apache.org - http://blog.andyhot.gr
>> Tapestry / Tacos developer
>> Open Source / JEE Consulting
>>
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