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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by gscott on Saturday July 24, 2010 @04:21AM (#1543331)
Uses latest start of the art technologies. ASP Classic, HTML with Tables. No abuse control at the moment (although I have set a CPU and bandwidth limit in IIS).

Has simple api where you can generate a PDF of a page. I have a client who needs this and I have been shoving it off to my own server but now I can just use this instead as a more generic solution. Supports saving the PDF in landscape.

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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by blueberry on Saturday July 24, 2010 @09:27AM (#1543599)
It doesn't even work with style sheets. Can you specify what it works with?
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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by defrex on Saturday July 24, 2010 @10:29AM (#1543692)
I believe "start of the art" is a pun, since he's using lame tech.
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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by gscott on Saturday July 24, 2010 @12:30PM (#1543937)
It was late I meant state of the art, teach to to write anything after midnight.
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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by blueberry on Saturday July 24, 2010 @10:52AM (#1543742)
Oh, OK that makes sense. Never heard of that before:)
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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by gscott on Monday August 02, 2010 @06:47PM (#1569388)
Turned out I had javascript, flash and some other things turned off. It uses Abcpdf component to create the pdf, I just found that a bunch of options are turned off by default.
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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by dpapathanasiou on Saturday July 24, 2010 @11:35AM (#1543850)
It worked pretty well with http://nytimes.com just now.
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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by wowfat on Saturday July 24, 2010 @06:40AM (#1543447)
how do you take the screenshot of the website? can this be used to make png / jpeg to get a thumbnails of websites?

Also finally how do you create pdf, is it some pdf printer?

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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by gmosx on Saturday July 24, 2010 @09:48AM (#1543624)
Which library is used to render the PDF file?
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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by xabi on Saturday July 24, 2010 @03:47PM (#1544259)
http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ ?
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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by tszming on Saturday July 24, 2010 @10:33AM (#1543699)
I doubt why you need "HTML Tidy for Linux"

:)

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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by gscott on Saturday July 24, 2010 @12:33PM (#1543941)
Something the w3c validator now offers, never noticed it before so I tried it out, my html is best just w3c never agrees with me.
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Re:CreatePDF.in: My two hour website to pdf project by atomical on Saturday July 24, 2010 @10:04AM (#1543641)
I think webkit would be a better renderer.
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