Save HTML as PDF
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Jackson, Adam
Hi,
xpa 2.5
Is there a way of programmatically saving an HTML page as PDF? I have a pdf document that has links to other documents in it. I have those links stored in data so I want to produce a list of hyperlinks with friendly names and merge it with the main document. The references to the linked documents in the main document cannot be hyperlinks so I have gone down the route of generating HTML document of hyperlinks and then using COM to save it as a PDF. If I do it manually it all works but my COM commands are not quite right. It generates a PDF file with the correct name and extension but I get errors when I try to open it.
Open word Get Documents object Using Documents object’s Open method I open HTML file – I get a convert dialogue which I need to get rid of programmatically but I also get this when I do it manually SaveAs2 – I set FileName argument as required. I have also played around with setting file format argument. I have tried wdFormatPDF and I have tried to use various trick with File Converters and FileConverter objects but pretty much get same result. Close document Quit Word
I think the file format argument on the SaveAs method is probably the key to this but I am not sure what to put in it.
Has anyone managed to do something similar or can see what I might be doing wrong?
TIA
Adam
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Craig Martin
You might have more success with an alternate approach using https://wkhtmltopdf.org/index.html
If you use python, it's easy to script with the pdfkit library - I've seen c# examples but never implemented it that way but I bet you could build a few lines of c# snippets in Magic to do your thing.
COM programming is so late Nineties.
From: main@magicu-l.groups.io <main@magicu-l.groups.io> on behalf of Jackson, Adam <adam.jackson@...>
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 5:59 AM To: magicu-l@groups.io <magicu-l@groups.io> Subject: [magicu-l] Save HTML as PDF Hi,
xpa 2.5
Is there a way of programmatically saving an HTML page as PDF? I have a pdf document that has links to other documents in it. I have those links stored in data so I want to produce a list of hyperlinks with friendly names and merge it with the main document. The references to the linked documents in the main document cannot be hyperlinks so I have gone down the route of generating HTML document of hyperlinks and then using COM to save it as a PDF. If I do it manually it all works but my COM commands are not quite right. It generates a PDF file with the correct name and extension but I get errors when I try to open it.
Open word Get Documents object Using Documents object’s Open method I open HTML file – I get a convert dialogue which I need to get rid of programmatically but I also get this when I do it manually SaveAs2 – I set FileName argument as required. I have also played around with setting file format argument. I have tried wdFormatPDF and I have tried to use various trick with File Converters and FileConverter objects but pretty much get same result. Close document Quit Word
I think the file format argument on the SaveAs method is probably the key to this but I am not sure what to put in it.
Has anyone managed to do something similar or can see what I might be doing wrong?
TIA
Adam
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- download from wkhtmltopdf (I downloaded the "7z Archive (XP/2003 or later)", and extracted it to "d:\temp\wkhtmltox"
- Make "D:\TEMP\wkhtmltox\bin" your current directory (cd D:\TEMP\wkhtmltox\bin) - Run: wkhtmltopdf.exe https://www.google.com google.pdf - See attached PDF. |
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Adrian Wick
If you have devexpress:
Easier to use c# than to use evaluate to do actions ... But it could also be done with evaluate.
Regards, A |
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