Printing Form with HTML_Area to PDF

Classic Servoy
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Hi,

We have a Form in our application, which contains a html_area.
Now we want to print the contents of this HTML_AREA to a PDF document.

If we try it with the controller.showPrintPreview function, what we found in one of the tutorials, we just get a blank pdf file.

Is it possible to print the html_area to pdf? And How?

Thanks.

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Janssenjos:
Is it possible to print the html_area to pdf? And How?

Yes, printing HTML_AREA’s is not really different than printing other fields, to do it use code like this:

controller.print(true, false, plugins.pdf_output.getPDFPrinter('c:/temp/out.pdf'));

Make sure that the HTML_AREA is in the body part of your form and that you have one or more records on the form.

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Thanks,

But unfortunately it won’t work. Instead of rendered HTML, it just prints it like followed:

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Make sure that the html starts with “” and ends with “”.

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Ok thanks,

Now the html is rendered, but we have a HTML_Area with a scrollbar.
And only the currently visible part is printed, not the rest.

I suppose there is no solution for this?

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Janssenjos:
I suppose there is no solution for this?

Why so negative? ;)

At your HTML_AREA at the printSliding property, allow the height to grow and at your body part check “Allow part to break across page boundaries”.

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Thank you very much!
That did the trick.

One question left: I have a footer (with the print button), which i don’t want to display. I can set the printable property on each item to false, but then i still have a white empty part at the bottom of each page. Is there a way to hide the footer in the pdf?

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You could remove the footer part using the solutionModel.

But if you only use the footer to show the print button, then I would suggest to not use a footer and show the button in the body.

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Ok, didn’t think abuoth that.

Thanks for the help!