HTML Rendering for PDF

<div>We viewed a demo on webElements and have a question about something that was mentioned in that demo, i.e. "You can create a PDF report, but you have to do some tricks." We need to know what those tricks are! <hr /></div><div>The background on our particular situation is this:</div><ul><li>We want to incorporate a text editor, similar to this one, in various forms to allow formatting of text in long text fields.</li><li>The HTML output will be stored in / retrieved from a SQL database. </li><li>We need to be able to use/modify existing reports generated through Crystal to create PDF output. </li><li>The HTML formatting functionality built into Crystal XI report items does not appear to be adequate, since it does not handle several HTML tags that we need - bulleted/ordered lists, perhaps tables. </li><li> We are using java on WebSphere application servers, with embedded Crystal reports. We do have Business Objects Enterprise available, but it is not configured for HTML pass-through, or webElements yet. </li><li>We want to use Enterprise, but if it doesn't solve our immediate problem (creating PDFs with embedded HTML, rendered properly) we will work on getting that set up later.</li></ul><div><hr />Bottom line question -- Can we expect that the PDF generation from HTML data fields in webElements/Enterprise is better than that which exists in Crystal standalone?</div><div>And/or - do you have "tricks" that you can share that will help? </div><div> Thanks for any help you can offer,</div><div>Fran </div>

hello,the webelements library uses a feature of pass-through html available in xi & xir2. activating pass through html allows the report developer to embed html into a report so one can create custom html that would not work by formatting a field or text object to display as html.pass-through html will not render controls on pdf exports and will show up as regular text in pdf.you might have miscronstrued a portion of the demo where it was mentioned that one could get around pass-through html showing up as text in pdf...the workaround is to hide this text and does not render the actual web controls.jw

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