HTML to PDF in Coldfusion

It seems to me the conversion from HTML to PDF using the
built in coldfusion tools is not very stable. Does anyone have any
suggestions of other software/components for that type of web based
PDF conversion?

Here's a tutorial on setting up HTMLDOC for ColdFusion:
http://tutorial135.easycfm.com
Also the command line reference gives a good understanding on
how the command line version works:
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/docfiles/8-cmdref.html

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How do I create an accessible PDF with ColdFusion 11

This is about as mission critical as it gets in the US Federal World. PDFs generated by ColdFusion must be section 508 compliant. It looks like the biggest issue is tagged content. Has anyone successfully generated a tagged pdf in ColdFusion 11???

I understand why you need updated running headers in your book. To a sighted reader these serve as a guide to where you are and help you find things quickly. In addition, if you are exporting your data to XML or HTML from the tagged PDF it would also be important to have these in the proper location.
But for accessibility purposes, it doesn't have to be there because the screen reader reads everything in linear order, line by line. No one is looking at the page. A user listening to the screen reader read the page is going to hear this heading, just before the actual word itself. So they will hear the first word on the page twice. It's not the end of the world if it's there, but such headings are not necessary for accessibility unless they are not repetitive and contain information that is not otherwise available.
So I would say, fine if you need them or want them there, it's just one word.
I think you should try exporting your book to PDF (or even just a chapter of the book) and look at the tags panel in Acrobat to see if you are getting the result you want. I can't tell you exactly what you should do to get those results, you are using a plug-in I don't have.
I can tell you I didn't have to add the headers to any article at all, they just automatically export if the other articles in the file are added and you don't select the header style option "not for export as XML."
You may not experience the same results with your plug-in, but I think it will probably work the same way.
Give it a try and best of luck.

HTML to PDF conversion tools?

What are there good open-soucrce tools to convert HTML into PDF document?
Thank you in advance.

Here's a tutorial on setting up HTMLDOC for ColdFusion:
http://tutorial135.easycfm.com
Also the command line reference gives a good understanding on
how the command line version works:
http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/docfiles/8-cmdref.html

How to convert html to pdf using acrobat sdk 8.0?

hi
I am a beginner of acrobat sdk .
I want to know How to use acrobat sdk 8.0 to convert html to pdf?
herere some questions :
1:How to support navigation inside PDF file that generated using acrobat sdk 8.0? For example: theres catalog in the top of HTML file, customer hopes can navigate inside the PDF file just like navigating inside the HTML file.
2:How to support operating some controls in the PDF file that generated using acrobat sdk 8.0? For example: therere some drop down list and text box in HTML file, customer hopes can input text in the text box, click the drop down list to see available options in it just like in HTML file.
Thanks in advance for any help and suggestion.

Hello,
I want a system to re-brand my 37 pages PDF for affiliates.
I want a php dynamic link in the PDF online in order to personalize automatically the PDF for each affiliate. I need to change 2 links each time. The affiliate ID and the Paypal email (payment button) in page 36.
Can you help?
Please let me know
Thank you
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PS My system is online and i can give you the url if it helps.

Tall report in both HTML and PDF

Hi,
I have a report in 10.1.2.0.2 with three logical parts; a header (logo, column titles), a body (actual data) and footer (column sums, some texts). At the moment I'm just using the main section (not header/trailer) but I'm willing to change.
Depending on the parameters the report will give 1-20 pages (if I was to print them) of output.
I would like to offer both HTML and PDF output but I'm having some issues.
If I set the height of the main section to 25 centimeters/10 inches and run the reports with parameters that produce 2 pages of output, I will get two pages i the PDF perfectly. The HTML will then get a seam (empty row) after 25cm/10In and then continue. The problem is that the second part of data is in a separate html table, making the columns not aligned to the first part.
So, PDF OK, HTML ugly.
If I set the height of the main section to 250 centimeters/100 inches and run the report again the HTML is fine. One long table and therefore consistent columns.
Now the PDF consists of only one page. It looks fine but after the last row I can scroll down much more as the PDF "page" is really tall now.
So, PDF ugly, HTML OK.
Any suggestions for acheiving a nice result in both PDF and HTML?
Kind regards
Tomas Albinsson
Stockholm, Sweden

Many thanks Denis, worked perfectly!
Now the customer has decided that they want the header on each page...
So now I don't need to use your solution but it's good to know how to solve it.
Fortunately (?) I've got a new problem now.
If the output spans two pages I now get one head, the first part of data, head again, rest of data and foot. Fine.
The problem is that the columns of head and data on page two are not aligned with the ones on page one.
So head and data always align, but only withing the page. Page two might be much wider than page one.
This is is HTML output and the frames are set to horizontally fixed.
Seems to be the footer. Didn't help putting it in a horizontally fixed frame of it's own.
Suggestions?
Kind regards
Tomas

Acrobat 9 HTML to PDF conversion sets all checkboxes to checked?

When I convert an HTML file that contains checkboxes to PDF using Acrobat 9 Standard or Pro (fully updated) on Windows XP SP3, all of the checkboxes end up checked in the resulting PDF. I've looked in settings menus but can't find anything that seems to be a relevant option to prevent this from happening. I've attached a simple test case .html file to this post that you can use to repeat the problem.
To convert the file, I right-click on the file in Windows Explorer, and click Convert to Adobe PDF. I've tried "printing" the document to the Adobe PDF printer, but that introduces other issues and is not really an acceptable solution.
Has anyone encountered this before, and/or have ideas how to fix it?

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.
Just for grins, I changed the order of the elements (moved the checked one below the unchecked one), but that did not make any difference in the Acrobat 9 HTML to PDF conversion.
I did test this with Acrobat 8 Standard, and the HTML to PDF conversion preserved the correct checked status of the input elements. It looks to me like this is a bug that was introduced in Acrobat 9.

Problem with converting html to pdf using LiveCycle ES Java API

I am using this code to convert html to pdf.
* 1. adobe-generatepdf-client.jar
* 2. adobe-livecycle-client.jar
* 3. adobe-usermanager-client.jar
* 4. adobe-utilities.jar
* 5. wlclient.jar
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Properties;
import com.adobe.idp.Document;
import com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClientFactory;
import com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClientFactoryProperties;
import com.adobe.livecycle.generatepdf.client.GeneratePdfServiceClient;
import com.adobe.livecycle.generatepdf.client.HtmlToPdfResult;
public class ConvertHTML {
   public static void main(String[] args)
        try{
        //Set connection properties required to invoke LiveCycle ES
        Properties connectionProps = new Properties();
        connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_DEFAULT_EJB_ENDPOINT, "t3://localhost:7001");
        connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_TRANSPORT_PROTOCOL,Service ClientFactoryProperties.DSC_EJB_PROTOCOL);
        connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_SERVER_TYPE, "WebLogic");
        connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_CREDENTIAL_USERNAME, "administrator");
        connectionProps.setProperty(ServiceClientFactoryProperties.DSC_CREDENTIAL_PASSWORD, "password");
        //Create a ServiceClientFactory instance
        ServiceClientFactory factory = ServiceClientFactory.createInstance(connectionProps);
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        GeneratePdfServiceClient pdfGenClient = new GeneratePdfServiceClient(factory);
       //Get an HTML document to convert to a PDF document a
        String inputFileName = "http://www.adobe.com";
        //String inputFileName = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\venkat\\Desktop\\Adobe.htm";
        String securitySettings = "No Security";
        String fileTypeSettings = "Standard";
System.out.println("one");
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        HtmlToPdfResult result = pdfGenClient.htmlToPDF2(inputFileName, fileTypeSettings, securitySettings, null, null);
System.out.println("two");
        //Get the newly created document
        Document createdDocument = result.getCreatedDocument();
        //Save the PDF document as a PDF file
        createdDocument.copyToFile(new File("C:\\test.pdf"));
    catch (Exception e) {
        System.out.println("Error OCCURRED: " + e.getMessage());
        e.printStackTrace();
I can able to compile this class but while running i am getting error like below.
Error OCCURRED: Internal error.
ALC-DSC-000-000: com.adobe.idp.dsc.DSCRuntimeException: Internal error.
        at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.doSend(EjbMessageDispatcher.java
:160)
        at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.base.AbstractMessageDispatcher.send(AbstractMessageDispat
cher.java:57)
        at com.adobe.idp.dsc.clientsdk.ServiceClient.invoke(ServiceClient.java:208)
        at com.adobe.livecycle.generatepdf.client.GeneratePdfServiceClient.htmlToPDF2(GeneratePdfSer
viceClient.java:666)
        at ConvertHTML.main(ConvertHTML.java:84)
Caused by: java.rmi.RemoteException: Remote EJBObject lookup failed for 'ejb/Invocation'; nested exc
eption is:
        org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE:   vmcid: SUN minor code: 203 completed: No
        at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.initialise(EjbMessageDispatcher.
java:101)
        at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.doSend(EjbMessageDispatcher.java
:130)
        ... 4 more
Caused by: org.omg.CORBA.COMM_FAILURE:   vmcid: SUN minor code: 203 completed: No
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.writeErrorSend(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.logging.ORBUtilSystemException.writeErrorSend(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.transport.SocketOrChannelConnectionImpl.writeLock(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.encoding.BufferManagerWriteStream.sendFragment(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.encoding.BufferManagerWriteStream.sendMessage(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.encoding.CDROutputObject.finishSendingMessage(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaMessageMediatorImpl.finishSendingRequest(Unknown Sour
ce)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaClientRequestDispatcherImpl.marshalingComplete1(Unkno
wn Source)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaClientRequestDispatcherImpl.marshalingComplete(Unknow
n Source)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaClientDelegateImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.corba.se.impl.protocol.CorbaClientDelegateImpl.is_a(Unknown Source)
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        at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.Utils.narrowContext(Utils.java:126)
        at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.InitialContextFactoryImpl.getInitialContext(InitialContextFact
oryImpl.java:94)
        at weblogic.corba.j2ee.naming.InitialContextFactoryImpl.getInitialContext(InitialContextFact
oryImpl.java:31)
        at weblogic.jndi.WLInitialContextFactory.getInitialContext(WLInitialContextFactory.java:41)
        at javax.naming.spi.NamingManager.getInitialContext(Unknown Source)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.getDefaultInitCtx(Unknown Source)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.init(Unknown Source)
        at javax.naming.InitialContext.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.initJndiContext(EjbMessageDispat
cher.java:213)
        at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.getJndiContext(EjbMessageDispatc
her.java:226)
        at com.adobe.idp.dsc.provider.impl.ejb.EjbMessageDispatcher.initialise(EjbMessageDispatcher.
java:87)
        ... 5 more
can u plz give me some way to do the convertion.

Yes Sir.....Thanks for ur suggestion.....
But i didn't find exact solution..well..yes i found some but not exactly there were not in the way i required...I jus need to convert HTML to PDF using iText API for java.....I already used some classes in that like HTMLParser.....etc..
So Any thing else...Any one...Sure can help me in this................

HTML to PDF conversion - problems with page-breaks and bookmarks

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;
We need to have bookmarks in there. Converter must be able to make them based on headlines from HTML source or afterwards, directly in PDF by using some auto-bookmarks feature;
There has to be table of content generated, based on HTML Link Tags if possible. Here’s sample of TOC structure that we have currently:
<A NAME="redirect">sample_text</A>
<A HREF="#redirect">sample_text</A>
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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Another problematic subject for me is the bookmarks creation. I know that they are not a problem if I’m doing DOC to PDF conversion. Then I’m able to decide what header should be used as a curtain level of bookmarks and everything is working great at the end. However - with direct HTML to PDF conversion - I really don’t know how to generate bookmarks that are based on the source of the input document. Is there any way to make fully working 2 level bookmark tree in this case? Here’s an example of the structure we want at the end:
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Could you please help me in finding the solutions? Just like I’ve mentioned - we can modify input HTML in any way, but in the end we would like to achieve our goals as quickly as possible.
Please excuse my English.
I am looking forward to your response,
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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?

HTML Vs PDF output

Hi,
I have created a report which is
running on web.
The PDF output looks fine to me as seen during design time but the HTML output is totally weared.
The text is not formatted properly etc...
Is there any way i can design a report which will look same in pdf and html output .
Pl. help
sh

Mananing html and pdf together seems to me a difficult task.
Output format differs by the Operating system too.
Html can be in better shape when font size is
less than 8.
But if this is 8 or > than 8 it will mess up the report.
We definelty need some assitance from the oracle team to help us out in reducing our
development time for multiple outputs.
Looking fwd to hear from oracle team,
thanks in advance
shailesh
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by tlazio:
We gave up on HTMLCSS and converted all of our reports to PDF.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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How to open an html or pdf file:

hi dear all,
i have a file html or pdf for user help. how to open it from my FORM button.
i am using Form 10g.
Thanks in advance.
Muhammad Nadeem
[email protected]

thanks dear,
here is different paths in this file:
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AliasMatch ^/forms/java/(..*) "F:\DevSuiteHome_1/forms/java/$1"
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Muhammad Nadeem

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?
That thread is old, but not answered. Has there been any update to this?

Hi Don,
Have you tried updating to v 9.5.5 and checked.
Which OS and browser are you using?
Have you checked the behavior with a new sample form on the browser?
Regards,
Rave

Why Reports format behaves different in Excel and browser(if desformat=html or pdf)?

1-Why Reports format behaves different in Excel and browser(if desformat=html or pdf)?
2-I made three queries Q1,Q2 & Q3 and linked them with proper field links but suppose Q3 returns no records for some Q1&Q2 records & when the report runs for delimited options it reflects only those records as output for which all the queries return records(if Q3 returns no record then the related records from queries Q1,Q2 don't reflect) while the output in desformat=html or pdf is ok..
can you please resolve my problems
( I have installed patch 5a in my report server machine)
Thanks & Regds.
Suneel
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What do you mean by "different"? (In our
experience, Oracle html output has too many
columns, which are not visible in the
browser but are obvious in Excel.)
We build our own html programmatically, so
that Excel matches the browser more closely.
-- Allan Plumb

Convert HTML to PDF - API or utility

Hi community,
Our product generates HTML reports, after that the users can edit them, and finally they want to send them via e-mail to another party. They want to send PDF document generated from that HTML. So I need to convert the HTML to PDF. Till now we did that with FOP and a xsl file we found(I don't remember where from) and improved a bit. However it becomes hard to maintain.
Searching around the forum and Google I found out about HTMLDoc, but it is not appropriate because FAQ states that currently it cannot embed other fonts than preset ones, and I need cyrillic font support. I tried several virtual printers that print to PDF file, but I want to escape from the HTML look - like table borders, etc.
I need a pointer to an appropriate product. Preferrably a pure java library, cross-platform because we will soon migrate from Windows to Linux, with support for external font embedding (like fop and iText). I am not limited to using only opensource and free libraries, it can be a commercial licence one.
Please share your experience in this area and guide me to a good library
Thanks for your time
Mike

Thanks for that idea ChuckBing. I will download OpenOffice and try this, it sounds good because OpenOffice seems to support both Linux and Windows.
Unfortunately the adobe online solution turned out not to be applicable for our case since there are customers that don't have access to Internet, besides there was a note on the site that currently only US and Canada are supported(but maybe I read it wrong)??
Thanks to all - kylias, MOD, DrClap and ChuckBing - for your participation. If OpenOffice does not solve the problem I intend to continue following the FOP path.
Mike

Looking for a convertor from HTML to PDF with J2SE

Hi all,
My current project would generate some XML data and display it on the web. Needless to say I have to prepare a matching set of XSL to transform the XML into HTML. I got that part done.
However, my project also requires a PDF output of the same XML data for download. Well, I planned to do the XSL-fo stuff on it as well. But at some point the client thought since new kind of XML data may be added and it's too troublesome to maintain 2 sets of XSLs, they are requesting a converter to translate HTML directly into PDF now.
I've searched the web, and found a few converter. But all of them are written in C and can't be embeded directly into my Java code. And my servlet might not have rights to call an external program on the production machine.
I would appreciate very much if anyone can share their experience on similar issue, using a Java component to convert HTML into PDF. Suggestion of commercial products or open source freeware are all welcome.
Thank you very much.

HTML to PDF with Java, using OpenOffice.org - example here: [http://www.dancrintea.ro/html-to-pdf/|http://www.dancrintea.ro/html-to-pdf/]
You can use OpenOffice.org, running as a server and command it remotely for document convertion.
Besides HTML to PDF, there are also possible other convertions:
doc --> pdf, html, txt, rtf
xls --> pdf, html, csv
ppt --> pdf, swf
Code example:
import officetools.OfficeFile; // this is my tools package
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(new File("c:/test.html"));
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(new File("c:/test.pdf"));
// suppose OpenOffice.org runs on localhost, port 8100
OfficeFile f = new OfficeFile(fis,"localhost","8100", true);
f.convert(fos,"pdf");
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Converting images as well as text from HTML to PDF

I used Acrobat XI to convert a text and photo document I created in Squarespace (HTML) to PDF. Acrobat successfully retained the format of the document and all the text but left blank all the spaces where photos had been placed. I then had to re-import all the photos, re-size and re-caption them -- a lot of work! Is there a way for Acrobat to import the entire document as it displays on the web, including all the photos in their proper placement?

Thanks for your suggestion. Where do I find the setting for View Large Images?

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