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#27356
Image embedding is one of the major functions of PD4ML, which is available since the first version of the software. So normally for GIF, JPEG and PNG it should be no problems.
A possible reason of the issue is image addressing: you need to make sure, that image URLs are either fully-specified (include protocol, server, port), or the URLs are relative to the actual document location (or to
setting of the doc). If the image URL is defined like “/WebAppName/path/to/image.gif”
PD4ML requires, that you pass current servlet context to it with
useServletContext(ServletContext ctx)
otherwise PD4ML has no chance to resolve the virtual path. (PD4ML JSP Taglib triggers the method implicitly)
If the above is not relevant for your particular case, please provide us with some more info:
- PD4ML usage scenario: Java, JSP, PHP, etc…
- A sample of image reference
- PD4ML debug output for a case, when it cannot load an image ()you may switch the debug output on with pd4ml.enableDebugInfo() call
#26223I am attempting to perform a proof of concept using the trial version of PD4ML and java (no jsp). I want to be able to display multiple tables in the header and footer. When I create a string containing html table tags and use setHtmlTemplate(htmlstring) to place this string in the header the rendered HTML does not appear in the resulting PDF document. I am wondering what I am doing wrong.
My test code looks like this:
[language=java:3fb0dy6f]private void generatePDF(String inputHTMLFileName, File outputPDFFile,
Dimension format, String fontsDir, String headerBody)
throws Exception
{
java.io.FileOutputStream fos = new java.io.FileOutputStream(outputPDFFile);
PD4ML pd4ml = new PD4ML();
pd4ml.setPageInsets(new Insets(20, 10, 10, 10));
pd4ml.setHtmlWidth(950);
pd4ml.enableImgSplit(false);
if ( fontsDir != null && fontsDir.length() > 0 ) {
pd4ml.useTTF( fontsDir, true );
}
PD4PageMark header = new PD4PageMark();
header.setAreaHeight( 20 );
header.setHtmlTemplate(populateHTMLHeaderFields());
pd4ml.setPageHeader( header );
pd4ml.render(“file:” + inputHTMLFileName, fos);
}private String populateHTMLHeaderFields()
{
StringBuffer str = new StringBuffer();str.append(“
“);
str.append(“Name: John Doe”);
str.append(““);
str.append(“DOCUMENT PRINT TEST”);
str.append(““);
str.append(“07/09/09”);
str.append(““);
str.append(““);return str.toString();
}[/language:3fb0dy6f]
Am I using setHtmlTemplate() incorrectly?thank you for your help.
jean
#27374setHtmlTemplate() works in the trial versions. But it is a feature of PD4ML Pro, so first make sure you use Pro version of the software.
The simpliest way to check that is to run PD4ML in GUI mode and to open About dialog:
[language=java:3j8ekjgx]java -jar pd4ml_demo.jar[/language:3j8ekjgx]
Also try to set header.setAreaHeight( -1 ); to autocompute the header height. You use 20pt height, which may be too low for the header table (only table margins fit the space; the content is clipped)#26224Hi,
I am using the latest java version of pd4ml and noticed that utf-8 encoded html pages with Chinese characters are not converted properly. The chinese characters appear like ??? in the generated pdf. Please let me know how to fix it.
PS: I am using command line execution on unix
Thanks!
#26225Hi
Is it possible to ensure that a div dose not get split over pages in the same way as a
with style=”page-break-inside:avoid;” so
??would be very useful to know..
many thanks
#26226Hello,
I’m currently evaluating pd4ml. I’ve a problem using the method PD4ML.setDynamicParams(). As this works well for parameters defined in the page body, dynamic parameters in the header don’t get replaced by the value stored in the map given to the setDynamicParams() method.
Here is a code fragment showing how I proceeded:
[language=java:5w376w5i]final PD4ML pdfCreator = new PD4ML();
final Map
dynamic.put(“variable”,”value”);
pdfCreator.setDynamicParams(dynamic);final PD4PageMark header = new PD4PageMark();
//$[variable] is contained in “someHTML”, e.g.
$[variable]
header.setHtmlTemplate(someHTML);header.setAreaHeight(-1);
pdfCreator.setPageHeader(header);//if $[variable] is contained in the HTML code returned by url, its value gets replaced as expected
pdfCreator.render(url, outputStream);[/language:5w376w5i]
I use the current version of pd4ml (3.5.1b1). Am I doing anything wrong?Regards,
Matthias#27385Yes, you are right. PD4ML does not substitute placeholders for headers/footers defined that way (however it works for inline headers and footers, i.e.
It is quite a trivial task to replace the placeholders in someHTML before it passed to PD4ML. For example, with String.replaceAll() Java API call.
If the workaround, for some reasons, is not acceptable by you, or if you want to keep the placeholder replacement mechanism of PDF generating module in your application consistent, we could add the feature to the forthcomming release.
#27376??? characters instead of CJK glyphs may appear in two cases:
- You use non-Pro version of PD4ML
- TTF embedding is not switched on or not correctly configured. See: pd4ml-html-css-pdf-tips-tricks-f7/ttf-embedding-t42.html
#26227Hello,
we have a problem in conjunction with the definition of stylesheets. Currently we set the stylesheet file via call to PD4ML.addStyle(), e.g.
[language=java:24wq1k8v]pdfCreator.addStyle(someUrl, true);[/language:24wq1k8v]
We define the page header using the method PD4ML.setPageHeader(somePD4PageMark).
We use PD4PageMark.setHTMLTemplate(someHTML) to set the HTML content.
First of all: Does “someHTML” have to be valid HTML, that means does it have to contain tags like “” or “
“?After that, we render the page using the method PD4ML.render(someURL, someStream);
(Again: Does the HTML returned by “someURL” have to be valid HTML?)
The problem concerning the stylesheet definition now is as follows:
The stylesheet file contains the following style definition:body {
background-color: white;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,sans-serif;
}The resulting pdf document only contains the header, but not the content retrieved by call to PD4ML.render(). (We found out that the content somehow gets painted over by the background-color.)
After removing “background-color: white” out of this style definition, everthing works fine. As our customers can define their own styles for their printings, we cannot assure that a customers won’t create a stylesheet we ran in problems with. Could you please instruct us how to prevent that issue?Regards,
Matthias#27258We are looking to use this feature however we would like some additional documentation on what the parameters are and how we can make use of them.
I have only seen this feature referenced in release notes and this forum. There is no mention in the API or Reference manual that I have found.Thanks , James
