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'
});
