XML to Pdf

Hi All,

I am not sure which area would be the best to post this...may be cross postings would help.

I need to convert XML and HTML files to PDF. I believe IW has discontinued OpenTransform owing to reasons for its problems with Teamsite integration.
Can anybody suggest me how can I achieve this now?

An early reply would be appreciated.

Amit.

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Migrateduser

When you say "XML to PDF" what XML files are you converting? The files in the xmldata folder? Or are these imported xml files?

Also, what do you want to see in your pdf? Can you attach an example pdf?

We use a free java package called iText to create pdf files in our environment (but not in Teamsite, we create the pdf's separately).
You will have to do some java coding in order to properly display the info on the PDF. But it's not difficult, mostly just tedious.

amitjain

Hi Taalgaard,

The requirement is to convert a XML file to pdf which is coming from an external resource and shall be converted to a DCR.
We also have the option to convert the HTML (generated from the same XML) to PDF.

iText could be useful, but I would rather want it to happen inside TS (if thats possible), as a WF does the end-2-end procesing of the whole task.
I could see some Perl Modules doing the same, not sure to how extent they are effective.

Somewhere in the TS tech docs, I read Acrobat distiller can do the trick. Can this be integrated somehow in TS? any ideas??

thanks for the input.

Amit.

ts_user

Came across this product which might be useful in your case. http://www.corda.com/lpage/convert_html_to_pdf.html
You should be able to invoke the conversion from the command line(Perl, Java) which might serve your purpose of running from within TeamSite. There are some examples on the website on how to use the tool.