#26418

Hello,
I am tring to get a PDF report from a java web project. I am using eclipse helios tomcat server 7.0.
What I am tring to do is getting a html report as pdf. The jsp taglib seems great but i have a problem at Turkish chars (they don’t shown right at pdf reports).
I have downloaded pd4ml.pro.trial.361b1.zip and added the taglib project to eclipse.
But the jsp file doesn’t give me a correct chars.

<%@ taglib uri="https://pd4ml.com/tlds/pd4ml/2.6" prefix="pd4ml"%>
<%@page	contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8"%>
<pd4ml:transform screenWidth="400" pageFormat="A5"
pageOrientation="landscape" pageInsets="100,100,100,100,points"
enableImageSplit="false">

<html>
<head>
<title>pd4ml test</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: Tahoma, "Sans-Serif";
font-size: 10pt;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

Hello, World! ıüöİÖÜŞşÇç

<pd4ml:page.break />

Hello, New Page!

</body>
</html>
</pd4ml:transform>

Any help would be great.

#26419

Hello PD4ML Support Team,

I am using the below posted code to generate PD4ML from asp.net application. Every thing till the file creation process works fine except it is throwing a permissions error when application tried to save the PDF. I am an admin on my Box. Can you help me to solve the permissions issue please?
Same time Can you also validate the stuff that I am doing below is proper as well.
{I did use VB.NET with framework 3.5 and PD4ML.NET during this task.Hope this helps}

'.................Purpose of the File ......................................................................
'Title: Test.
'This page will be used to testBuild any new functionality independently.
'................................................................................................................
Imports org.zefer.pd4ml
Imports System.IO

''' <summary>
'''
''' </summary>
Partial Class PD4MLTest
Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
'Protected Shared USAGE As String = "Usage: pd4net.exe '<url>' <htmlWidth> [pageFormat] [-permissions <NUMBER>]" & _
'"[-bookmarks <HEADINGS|ANCHORS>] [-orientation <PORTRAIT|LANDSCAPE>] " & _
'"[-ttf <ttf_fonts_dir>] [-out <output_file_path>]"

Protected Shared strUsage As String
Protected Shared USAGE As ArrayList = New ArrayList()



''' <summary>
''' Handles the Load event of the Page control.
''' </summary>
''' <param name="sender">The source of the event.</param>
''' <param name="e">The <see cref="System.EventArgs" /> instance containing the event data.</param>
Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
USAGE.Add("http://localhost:3013/web/Default.aspx")
USAGE.Add(500)
USAGE.Add("A4")
USAGE.Add(1)
USAGE.Add("HEADINGS")
USAGE.Add("PORTRAIT")
USAGE.Add("c:windowsfonts")
USAGE.Add("C:P")
strUsage = String.Format("Usage: pd4net.exe {0}, {1}, {2}, -permissions {3}, -bookmarks {4}, -orientation {5}, - ttf {6},-out {7}", USAGE(0), USAGE(1), USAGE(2), USAGE(3), USAGE(4), USAGE(5), USAGE(6), USAGE(7))
Main(USAGE)
'Converter.generatePDF(infile, width, Format, permissions, bookmarks, Orientation, ttf, outfile)
End Sub
''' <summary>
''' Generates the PDF.
''' </summary>
''' <param name="inputUrl">The input URL.</param>
''' <param name="htmlWidth">Width of the HTML.</param>
''' <param name="pageFormat">The page format.</param>
''' <param name="permissions">The permissions.</param>
''' <param name="bookmarks">The bookmarks.</param>
''' <param name="orientation">The orientation.</param>
''' <param name="fontsDir">The fonts dir.</param>
''' <param name="outfile">The outfile.</param>
Protected Sub generatePDF(ByVal inputUrl As String, ByVal htmlWidth As Integer, ByVal pageFormat As String, ByVal permissions As Integer, ByVal bookmarks As String, ByVal orientation As String, ByVal fontsDir As String, ByVal outfile As String)
Dim pd4ml As PD4ML = New PD4ML()

pd4ml.HtmlWidth = htmlWidth

If (orientation = Nothing Or orientation.Trim.Length = 0) Then
orientation = "portrait"
End If

If ("PORTRAIT".Equals(orientation.ToUpper())) Then
pd4ml.PageSize = PD4Constants.getSizeByName(pageFormat)
Else
pd4ml.PageSize = pd4ml.changePageOrientation(PD4Constants.getSizeByName(pageFormat))
End If

If (permissions <> -1) Then
pd4ml.setPermissions("empty", permissions, True)
End If

If (bookmarks <> Nothing AndAlso bookmarks.Trim.Length > 0) Then
If ("ANCHORS".Equals(bookmarks.ToUpper())) Then
pd4ml.generateOutlines(False)
ElseIf ("HEADINGS".Equals(bookmarks.ToUpper())) Then
pd4ml.generateOutlines(True)
End If
End If

If (fontsDir <> Nothing AndAlso fontsDir.Length > 0) Then
pd4ml.useTTF(fontsDir, True)
End If

If (outfile = Nothing OrElse outfile.Equals("-")) Then
pd4ml.render(New Uri(inputUrl), Console.Out)
Else
pd4ml.render(New Uri(inputUrl), New System.IO.FileStream(outfile, System.IO.FileMode.Create))
End If
End Sub
''' <summary>
''' Wrongs the param.
''' </summary>
''' <param name="msg">The MSG.</param>
Protected Shared Sub wrongParam(ByVal msg As String)
Console.Out.WriteLine("invalid parameter: " + msg)
Console.Out.WriteLine(USAGE)
End Sub



''' <summary>
''' Mains the specified args.
''' </summary>
''' <param name="args">The args.</param>
Private Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As ArrayList)
'Private Shared Sub Main(ByVal args As string())
'  converter.generatePDF(infile, width, format, permissions, bookmarks, orientation, ttf, outfile)
Dim infile As String = args(0).ToString
Dim width As Integer = CInt(args(1))
Dim format As String = args(2).ToString
Dim permissions As Integer = args(3).ToString
Dim bookmarks As String = args(4).ToString
Dim orientation As String = args(5).ToString
Dim ttf As String = args(6).ToString
Dim outfile As String = args(7).ToString
Dim formatSet As Boolean = False
Dim ff As FileInfo = Nothing
Dim i As Integer

For i = 0 To i < args.Count
'For i = 0 To i < args.Length

If ("-permissions".Equals(args(i))) Then
i = i + i
'If (i = args.Length) Then
If (i = args.Count) Then
wrongParam("missing permissions number (a sum of single permission codes)")
Return
End If
permissions = Int32.Parse(args(i))
Continue For
End If

If ("-bookmarks".Equals(args(i))) Then
i = i + i
If (i = args.Count) Then
wrongParam("missing bookmark type (HEADINGS or ANCHORS)")
Return
End If
bookmarks = args(i)
Continue For
End If

If ("-orientation".Equals(args(i))) Then
i = i + i
If (i = args.Count) Then
wrongParam("missing orientation type (PORTRAIT or LANDSCAPE)")
Return
End If
orientation = args(i)
Continue For
End If

If ("-ttf".Equals(args(i))) Then
i = i + i
If (i = args.Count) Then
wrongParam("missing TTF fonts directory")
Return
End If
ff = New FileInfo(args(i))
ttf = ff.FullName
Continue For
End If

If ("-out".Equals(args(i))) Then
i = i + i
If (i = args.Count) Then
wrongParam("missing output file name")
Return
End If
outfile = args(i)
Continue For
End If

If (args(i).StartsWith("-")) Then
wrongParam("unknown: " + args(i))
Return
End If

If (infile = Nothing) Then
Dim ss As String = args(i)
If Not (ss.StartsWith("http://") AndAlso ss.StartsWith("file://")) Then
ff = New FileInfo(ss)
infile = "file:///" & ff.FullName
Else
infile = ss
End If
Continue For
End If

If (width = -1) Then
width = Int32.Parse(args(i))
Continue For
End If

If (Not formatSet) Then
formatSet = True
format = args(i)
Continue For
End If
wrongParam(args(i))
Return
Next i

If (infile = Nothing) Then
Console.Out.WriteLine("source URL is missing")
Console.Out.WriteLine(USAGE)
Return
End If

If (width = -1) Then
Console.Out.WriteLine("HTML width parameter is missing")
Console.Out.WriteLine(USAGE)
Return
End If

Dim converter As PD4MLTest = New PD4MLTest
converter.generatePDF(infile, width, format, permissions, bookmarks, orientation, ttf, outfile)

End Sub
End Class

Thanks and Regards,
Venky

#27994

Thanks. I was sure I had tried that, but I guess I must not have.

#27983

Adrian,

PD4ML does not support as, in most of the situations, there is no base to compute percentual heights, but width=”100%” should work.

> The second problem I have is that I have a html very large horizontally.
> Is there a way to stretch the html to fit a pdf page?

Try to increase htmlWidth conversion parameter to exceed the table width.

#27360

If an tag has no height/width attributes, PD4ML uses the original pixel dimensions of the image.

If the image does not fit PDF page width, you need to adjust HTML-to-PDF scaling factor.

HTML->PDF conversion is performed in two steps: HTML rendering – it uses htmlWidth parameter (aka screenWidth in PD4ML JSP taglib) as virtual web browser frame width, and PDF output – it maps the htmlWidth to the horizontal width of choosen paper format.

If a particular image does not fit horizontally PDF page, that means, the image is wider than htmlWidth.

In the case you have two options:

• increase htmlWidth value (default is 640)
• scale down the image with height and width attributes of tag

#27890

Obviously in pd4fonts.properties there is a line

code2000=font.ttf

Just substitute it with

code2000=anotherfont.ttf

and make anotherfont.ttf exists and readable

#28085

A HTML sample would help a lot to analyze the problem reasons.

Could you please attach it to a post or send it directly to support pd4ml com

#28077

Ok!

I find this problem:

version: PD4ML 360fx1b1 Pro
https://193.204.6.37:30443/.../..cc65a0acd.xml not found.
java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out

…
the file in not available for https via 30443 port! 🙁

Why?

Thanks

#28078

Maybe I find the solution, but I have another issue for you!

I can access to the file also in this way:

https://127.0.0.1/…/..cc65a0acd.xml

but only without check certificate.

For example, this work:

wget –no-check-certificate https://127.0.0.1/…/..cc65a0acd.xml

and this doesn’t work:

wget https://127.0.0.1/…/..cc65a0acd.xml

How can I tell to pd4ml to access to the file with something like “–no-check-certificate” option?

Thanks
Mk

#28079

mmm…
can’t I access to the file with a localPath and not with a url?
Thanks
Mk

#27599

It depends on the server side session mechanism of you web application. You need to propagate the session ID correctly with the URL passed to PD4ML.

For the regular J2EE application a solution is to add the jsessionid parameter to URLs:

http://your.server.net/webapp/sourcepage.jsp;jsessionid=8764587625?param1=value1&param2=value2

#27806

Forget about it. The table was to small.

Problem solved.

#26421

Hello

I am using pd4ml.net to create dynamic pdfs.
When I am providing an output file to generatePDF method, i am getting permission denied error, if not i am getting the below error.
‘Unable to translate bytes [C7] at index -1 from specified code page to Unicode.’
I am trying to make it work since two weeks. looking for some assistance in this regard please.

I greatly appreciate your help to make this working.

Thanks and Regards,
Venky

#28080

Oficially PD4ML does not support HTTPS, however on practice it tries to load HTTPS resources with Java’s standard SSL classes.

WebSphere and Weblogic, for example, and may be some others implement their own SSL libraries, not derived from Java’s standard one. As a result it causes ClassCastException. As I see, it is not your case, but there may be other SSL protocol related issues, specific for your environment.

The best workaround for the HTTPS issue is not to use HTTPS for CSS or image references. It is expensive from the performance perspective and causes undesired network transactions. A better approach is to reference the resources with relative links.

If your source HTML documents are read-only and you are not allowed to change HTTPS URLs there, there is also a solution with custom resource loaders. You may implement your own one and to use any SSL library you like:

pd4ml-html-css-pdf-tips-tricks-f7/a-definition-of-custom-resource-loaders-t40.html

Also https://pd4ml.com/examples.zip include source codes of SSL servlet, where you could borrow some ideas from (for example how to suppress a certificate check).

#27953

Yes. I would recommend to use <pd4ml:page.header> for that:

<table>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>

, you mentioned, is a custom JSP tag, mapped to PD4ML API – so it works only in JSP container. More info about PD4ML headers/footers: html-pdf-faq-f1/pdf-page-headers-footers-definition-options-t41.html

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