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We have a requirement to export different pages of our I.E. only web application to Excel/pdf documents.
The pages have graphics/grids/text, etc…They should also be printable as well.
I heard weSuperGoo mentioned, but have no experience with it.
I am in the research phase now and I wonder what tools/technologies/methods are out there for this task?
I would appreciate any pointers/direction.
Thanks!
We have used ABCpdf by WebSupergoo which includes the ability to retrieve a URL and convert it to a PDF (see documentation). This means all we need to do is provide a suitably formatted version of the page in plain old HTML and point ABCpdf at this URL and it will convert everything automatically for us – beats having to build the page up manually element by element.
I should add that this isn’t perfect – we have had some issues relating to matters like paging (very difficult to page HTML when you need things like headers and footers on every page) but for simple uses it’s up to the job.
You can get ABCpdf free if you’re prepared to link to them.