Hey i have used both
Active PDF and ABCPDF ,,
Its a known fact that you cant convert any html directly to PDF in
active PDF , the main use of this active pdf is filling PDF forms or
PDF templates .. its really use full if thats your only need and when
you move to HTML parsing .. Active PDF will fail ,, there is another
tool called webgrabber from the same activePDF company,, but its little
tricky to configure...
Speaking about ABC Pdf ,, its really a good tool but it too has its own
cons .. within two or three lines of code you can convert HTML to PDF
,, but when you want to convert Templates to PDF the problem arrises
particularly when you trying to add images ,, its so simple in Active
PDF ,, and the Object.Clear() doesnt actually work most of the times ,,
until you change the input data ...and another issue is that when you
have any URL in the Text that you are adding into the page.. it
actually doesnt take it as string it conects to the site and displays
the page itself..
bruce barker (sqlwork.com) wrote:[color=blue]
> there are several good libraries for writing pdf. as for parsing html into
> pdf there are few. this is a small niche, and only a couple support full
> html.
http://www.activepdf.com/ is the leader.
>
> most html to pdf libraries that support html 4.0, work by using IE as html
> parser and a custom print driver to get pdf output. then they write some
> components to bundle this up as a callable interface.
>
> -- bruce (sqlwork.com)
>
>
>
> "Ray Booysen" <rj_booysen_NS@rjb.za.net> wrote in message
> news:OXm45CslGHA.4768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> > Hi all
> >
> > After finding out that my pdf library (ABCPdf) doesn't support HTML being
> > imported as an input (Well it does but doesn't support the <table>
> > element), I'm looking for a good quality component (can be commercial)
> > that takes in HTML (and a stylesheet) and can create a PDF based on that
> > HTML.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Regards
> > Ray[/color][/color]
