server side html to pdf conversion

[Rajesh kannan]

Hi guys,
Do u have any best solution to convert html to pdf in serverside on the fly?Is there any tools provided by Adobe??
Thanks in advance.

[William Brogden]

The Apache FOP project has open source code for PDF creation using XSLT - example XSL scripts for XHTML conversion are included in the package. Note that poorly formed HTML that might be tolerated by browsers will not work.
This is the FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) site.
The FOP project has an active and helpful mailing list.
The iText project is another free Java library.
Bill

[Rajesh kannan]

thanks
I am searching for adobe solution..
is it possible??
rajesh

[David O'Meara]

"JavaRajesh kannan",

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David
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[Rajesh kannan]

hi,
I have already gone through the policies.While creating my profile i struggled, i thought the user name was already exists problem..so that i change my display name as "javaRajesh kannan" now its changed to "Rajesh kannan"..
Any how thanks for ur reminder..

Guys
any adobe solution??

[Ben Souther]

Did you check with Adobe?

I did several years ago.
At the time, they had a server version of Distiller (their PDF generator) but it was pretty limited and not cheap.
Things may have changed since then.

I ended up using FOP (See William's post for link) and was very happy with it.
[ October 05, 2005: Message edited by: Ben Souther ]

[Rajesh kannan]

Ben,
U r right. Adobe Distiller is the best solution for creating pdf files.But It creates the pdf files only from Post Script files.I have also used that in the client side.Can we apply distiller to server side too??this is my question..
Thanks
Rajesh

[Ben Souther]

As I mentioned earlier:

I haven't looked at Distiller in the last few years

At the time, there was a server option (think it was MS specific but don't quote me on that).

It was expensive

It was limited. We wanted to be able to create multiple PDFs from a template with data from an Oracle Database and there was something keeping us from doing it.

I ended up using FOP so I didn't look any further into Adobe options.

If you're determined to use Adobe, call them.
They're a commercial company who will charge you for their products.
I'm sure a salesperson will be happy to tell you all about their offerings.