generate pdf in helsinki

[ochiengboniface]

Hallo SN,

I found this tutorial on how to generate pdf in geneva. (PDF Generation in Geneva ). I am trying to generate the same in Helsinki. I cant to seem to get it to work. Is there a method to get it to work in Helsinki?

[MEGHANAB]

Hello ochiengboniface,

So the route you have tried is it working?

[Wallace Roets · Accepted solution]

Simplified code (Helsinki AJAX Script Include) for generating a PDF from HTML

example method you can call from a UI action (obviously you would want to replace the hardcoded bits with what you require)

var PDF = Class.create();
PDF.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, {

   _document : null,

   example : function (){
   this.createPDF('<p>Hello World!</p>',   //HTML to convert to PDF
     'incident',   //Attach PDF to table
     'd324db7d2b9aa20072675aa419da1547', //Attach PDF to record/sys_id
     'myFile.pdf');   //attachment filename
   },

   createPDF : function(html, table, sys_id, filename) {
      var pdfDoc = new GeneralPDF.Document(null, null, null, null, null, null);
     this._document = new GeneralPDF(pdfDoc);
      this._document.startHTMLParser();
      this._document.addHTML(html);
     this._document.stopHTMLParser();
      this._saveAs(table, sys_id, filename);
   },

   _saveAs : function (table, sys_id, filename){
      var att = new GeneralPDF.Attachment();
      att.setTableName(table);
      att.setTableId(sys_id);
      att.setName(filename);
      att.setType('application/pdf');
      att.setBody(this._document.get());
      GeneralPDF.attach(att);
   },

       type: 'PDF'
});

[hung_nguyen]

Hi Wallace,
could you give me a example about how add css and image into PDF file with this solution?

thanks.

[A Elbarbary]

Hi Hung,

You can make use of the native 'font' tags to control things like font color, size and background color, some inline css attributes are also allowed like 'font-size'

[victor21]

Hi Abd El-Rhman,

I am having problem with table borders. I am unable to process table styles - do you have any idea how to do this?

Thanks for any suggestion.

Regards,

Victor Olufowobi