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#29356
No. PD4ML runs single thread to be compliant with J2EE requirements.
If you convert HTMLs come from a single source, probably an image pre-fetch to PD4ML internal cache could help.
#26857hi,
It seems that pd4ml will interpret value of border-bottom-width less than 0.38pt as “0”, please check, thanks.version:pd4ml.pro.trial.385b8
#27950Is this still true? No javascript support?
#27951We do not plan to natively support JavaScript in PD4ML. Originally PD4ML is not intended for web sites capture; it is to allow you to define PDF layouts with simple well-known languages – HTML/CSS.
In PD4ML use cases JavaScript could be only used to generate some portions of HTML content, as the most of JavaScript “power” (interactivity, animation etc) is not applicable or direct convertible to its target PDF format.
As a drawback JavaScript support would turn PD4ML into a bulky construct (adding JavaScript runtime, DOM structures) and requires quite a serious refactoring of the existing code.
There is a tricky workaround JavaScript-enabled pages. It work only in web scenarios to implement “convert to PDF” button for current page. After JavaScript is evaluated in a web browser and the layout is rendered, the actual dynamic HTML can be captured from the browser and passed to PD4ML.
I’ve attached a draft, which illustrates it. The form “action” attribute should point to a Java servlet, which takes “source” parameter value (HTML code) and converts it to PDF.
#29369We’ve just fixed the problem in the development build. The fix will be available with the forthcoming (beta) release in 1-2 weeks.
#29358The simplest way would be to generate an HTML index of the images:
[language=xml:idlam7vh]
…[/language:idlam7vh]and let PD4ML to convert it to PDF once.
#27490I tried the above steps but got no output.Can you please guide me any alternative way for the same.Thanks in advance.
#26858Hi all,
I am trying to generate RTF files from templates, and most of the html elements are successfully translated.
However, I have a problem with fonts.
In particular, I was not able to convert Arial fonts in HTML to Arial fonts in RTF.
I have a production server on Unix, and I have a testing server on Mac and I was not successful on any.My local testing code that also fails is as follows:
<br /> public static void test()<br /> {<br /> PD4ML pd4ml = new PD4ML();<br /> pd4ml.outputFormat(PD4ML.RTF);<br /> String preparsedTemplate = "<html> <head> <title>HTML Online Editor Sample</title> </head> <body> <h1> <span style="color:#00ff00;font-family:'Arial'"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Hello world !</span></span></h1><br /> <font face="Arial" color="green">This is some text!</font><br /> </body></html>";<br /> <br /> try {<br /> pd4ml.useTTF( "java:fonts", true );<br /> } catch (FileNotFoundException e2) {<br /> e2.printStackTrace();<br /> }<br /> pd4ml.setDefaultTTFs("Times New Roman", "Arial", "Courier New");<br /> pd4ml.enableDebugInfo();<br /> <br /> FileOutputStream f;<br /> try {<br /> f = new FileOutputStream("/Users/zprotic/Desktop/Documents/test.rtf");<br /> pd4ml.render(new StringReader(preparsedTemplate), f);<br /> } catch (Exception e) {<br /> e.printStackTrace();<br /> }<br /> }<br />
I have a fonts.jar file in my classpath, with the mentioned fonts.
The debug info is as follows:
<br /> not yet in cache: java:fonts/pd4fonts.properties<br /> not yet in cache: java:fonts/arialbd.ttf<br /> read 'arial bold' from java:fonts/arialbd.ttf<br /> not yet in cache: java:fonts/arial.ttf<br /> read 'arial' from java:fonts/arial.ttf<br />The generated header font (on Mac) is Geneva, and the generated body font is unknown (empty on Word 2011 for Mac).
Attached is the generated RTF file.Can anyone help with this issue ?
EDIT: After pointed out by colleagues, I have found out that in OpenOffice, the resulting font is ArialMT or Arial-BoldMT for the header.
#29370By RTF generation, in fact, PD4ML does not embed TTF fonts to the resulting document (I am even not sure if RTF file format supports that), but writes a font family reference to let RTF viewer resolve it.
As I see in the RTF src, it refers to Win32-specific fonts, which is obviously not correct:
[language=java:288zz1ss]{f1 Arial-BoldMT;}{f2 ArialMT;}[/language:288zz1ss]Try to disable TTF Embedding by RTF generation (exclude pd4ml.useTTF() call). Does it change anything?
#26743For our RTF file generation, We added a footer, which includes a image(logo), the footer is displayed, however the image is missing … Please advice.
Note: Same code generates the image in PDF file, but the image is missing in RTF
Following is the snippet of the code
private PD4PageMark buildFooter(String docHyperlink) {
try {
…PD4PageMark footer = new PD4PageMark();
footer.setHtmlTemplate(
“” +
“”
+ ”” +
“”
+ “Some txt ““);
return footer;
} catch (Exception e) {
log.error(e.getMessage(),e);
log.error(“Error in building the footer.”);
throw new IllegalStateException(e);
}
}…
pd4ml.setPageFooter(buildFooter(itemUrl));
…
#28400There is a way to define initial page number within HTML?
Something similar to:
I know that there is a way to pass it from JAVA API:
PD4PageMark footer = new PD4PageMark();
footer.setInitialPageNumber(0);
footer.setHtmlTemplate(““);
Which doesn’t completely satisfy our needs.
