Hi Ricardo,

I'm also interested in the OSP.
And I think many more people want to use it.

Is it using an external site which does the conversion or are you creating it using an extension ?

Regards,
Joop

Here's one possibility:

https://www.outsystems.com/NetworkSolutions/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectId=143

Hi all

First, referece to the original code component https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ and credits to Vitor Rosário.

Second, to try this you should create an espace to encapsulate the extension, and the espace must have the "run as" user defined in service center.

Cheers,
RNA

Another alternative is to wrap a good PDF library as an extension. I like the Syncfusion controls, they are well priced and do a good job in my opinion. I use them for parsing PDFs, and I will (probably) eventually use them to generate PDFs too.

J.Ja

We've also used Aspose successfully. Our customer designs Word templates (dots) themselves which are merged with Aspose Words with live data (we detect which merge fields he added in the document and fetch them from the database), and in the end we transform the doc(x) into pdf with the PDF API.

We went for it considering

• it is extremelly fast (we need to generate thousands of documents, each word merge + conversion to pdf was taking around 1.2 seconds the last time we measured) - We evaluated other faster components, but they were limited in support for the kind of manipulation we required over word and pdf
• It is feature rich (the word automation API basically allows you to everything you might ever need; I don't know the pdf automation api so well)
• the licensing scales very well 

cheers,
GB

To be honest, I think OutSystems needs to provide this functionality free of charge in their platform.
If I use PHP as platform, I can create PDF's without any problem/license (https://www.fpdf.org/ , https://www.tcpdf.org/index.php )

Joop, the solution attached before is free of charge.

As you might know, there is a huge product backlog, and every workitem is prioritize, so lets wait for it ...

Cheers, 
RNA

Joop,

There is also a similar library just like that for c# and java: iText (https://itextpdf.com/download.php, https://itextpdf.com/itext.php)
It allows similar constructs. You just need to wrap it in an extension and you get the same feature set. I know it was already used in one of our projects.

My usual problem with these libraries is that they are very low level APIs, so you end up having a lot of work composing a PDF. Higher level APIs like Aspose provide you with more features out-of-the-box... that comes with a price.

There's also Epopeia Agile Reporting Services, which also allow exporting to PDF. If you compare such a solution with using APIs for building PDFs... there are huge productivity gains.

Joop -

If you can do it in PHP free of charge, it would make a lot of sense to (for the time being), make a PHP-based Web service that does what you need, and call it from Agile Platform. Not an ideal solution, but there is a certain point where I think it's unfair to expect OSAP to do something... simply because I shudder to think what the UI would look like if it actually got every feature in Wisdom of the Crowds. :)

J.Ja

Hello all!

I've analysed all your options, and ended up using Ricardo's solution HtmlToPDF.
It works like its supposed, and it's free.

Thank you Ricardo!

Best Regards,
Ana Sofia Santana

Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble using html2pdf solution above.

I was able to generate my page from the wkhtmltopdf command line on the server. However, when my application generates the same screen the PDF gets corrupted. It really does something since the file is not empty (about 12Kb). But then, when I try to open it I get Adobe Acrobat's error message: There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired.

Any ideas?

Very appreciated!

Finally got it: screen authentication seems to cause this problem.

Also, be aware that wkhtmltopdf has an open issue on lack of flash support (https://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/issues/detail?id=48)

Cheers!

Hi there,

Has anyone successfully managed to insert page breaks or page numbers using the HTML to PDF extension?

I've tried css for page breaks, and it works ok while printing (using primopdf for example), but this wkhtmltopdf/ doesn't seem to recognize the Css...

As for the page numbers, if anyone has any suggestion, it will be welcome.

With Best Regards,

Diogo Cordovil S. Cordeiro

Anyone tried to print fusion charts with this? I have converted fusion charts to javascript mode but even that i cant get no chart in pdf

Filipe -

That's because Fusion Charts use Flash, and the took to do te PDF conversion isn't going to run Flash content.

J.Ja

No i am using javascript mode,not flash