HTML to PDF Conversion

I have requirement to convert a document in HTML to PDF. I need to do this in the background programatically (in C++ preferably) and without any UI prompts to the user. Does the Acrobat/PDF SDK provide any such APIs.

Do you want to do this on the desktop or server?
Acrobat (and thus the Acrobat SDK) can NOT be used on a server, so you'd need to look at our LiveCycle/ADEP products.
For the desktop, you can write a C++-based plugin for Acrobat to do this conversion.
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HTML to PDF Conversion
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Input elements have no such inheritance on the checked attribute. Furthermore, the input elements in my test case are not grouped together. They are each encapsulated within separate list item elements, and so no inheritance should take place after the first input element.
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Hello,
My company is currently considering updating your software (from Acrobat 9 Pro to Acrobat XI Pro) and I’ve been assigned to research its features and make sure that it is a right fit for our goals. Basically we want to automate the whole process as much as possible and we want to create PDF directly from HTML. We’re providing a lot of content in HTML and we need a fast way to transfer it into PDF format. There are however some guidelines:
We want page-breaks in is this kind of documents, and thus - your app needs to be able to interpret HTML and put them where we want to;
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Of course we can modify HTML in any way you want us to. The important thing for us is to make it work in PDF without the need to make a lot of manual changes after conversion.
I’ve been messing with Acrobat 9 Pro and reading some documentation that you have provided and I’m convinced that point 3 is not a problem. I’m aware that Acrobat 9 Pro is not having any difficulties with links in document and they work fine in PDF format that has been created from HTML.
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Please excuse my English.
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Frankly - we would like to avoid using Word. We are using it currently but there are long-term plans of improving whole conversion process, eliminate any mid-steps and automate as much as possible even though conversion is not going to be done unattended on a server. Thank you for your response, but I hope that maybe someone else would have any idea?

Acrobat 9 HTML to PDF conversion sets all checkboxes to checked - Duplicate question

I am converting html files to pdf using Acrobat 9 pro. All of the check boxes and radio buttons come out checked.
This is exactly the same as the following thread:
Acrobat 9 HTML to PDF conversion sets all checkboxes to checked?
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Hi Don,
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HTML to PDF in Coldfusion

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Solutions for converting HTML to PDF programatically?

to start off i should say that i am rather new to programming in java.
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#1 There are definite copyright issues with your
software. Before you go live with anything like this,
make sure you're not gonna get reamed.Ehh? I didn't see anything from the OP's question that implied this. Yes, if he uses it to mine commercial web sites and convert them to PDF's there's a problem, but aside from that, where's the danger?
#2 The PDF part is the easy part. As the other poster
said, lowagie iText can do PDF. The rendered HTML is
a much bigger question. The smaller issue is that web
pages are defined to fit your browser window, so
you've got to choose a size. The much tougher problem
is finding a decent HTML renderer in Java. In truth,
I don't think there is one; JEditorPane is a piece of
****, and opera is really not a lot better. Not at all. The OP specifically mentioned web services, so we don't need to assume that Swing is involved. You can, using a 3rd party library (google for java pdf), have a servlet or jsp render its output as a PDF document.

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