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Clinton Side-Kick
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For our customer, we have created various layout template pages for measures with specific gadget combinations per page (i.e. Header-, graph-, grid-, legend-, and footer gadgets). The user can drill into a layout page for a measure from their today page.

Now the user wants to print all of the content from the layout page. Some of the background colours are left out by the print preview (probably a printer default setting).

My question is, has anyone created a function/mechanism to convert the content of a page consisting of multiple gadgets to pdf and then send the resulting document to a printer?

I am hoping that I have not missed this in a previous thread, apologies if I have.

Regards


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Bob Jude Ferrante
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The page is mixed content over HTML and so printing is a browser function. Gadgets are HTML objects. WebFOCUS isn't a general purpose PDF output tool... it doesn't have the ability to print a mixed-layout HTML page as PDF (even WebFOCUS HTML layout pages don't convert to PDF this way). You can have straight HTML (not run through the WebFOCUS server) and other applications such as Google Maps and Flash objects in gadgets... and since these don't go through the stylesheet driver, it's beyond the scope of what WebFOCUS is designed to do.

But there are solutions. There are free utilities out there to print content as PDF. I recommend PrimoPDF, which is a freeware print driver you can install on their PCs. They can use the browser print function, specify the PrimoPDF print driver, and print the entire page to a PDF file.

thanks


Bob Jude Ferrante
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Clinton Side-Kick
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PrimoPDF

Thanks for the quick update.
Your answer is fair enough.
And your suggestion even better.
Thanks, PrimoPDF works well.


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