editor: output as PDF

[guest]

It would be great to have a build-in pdf-converter, so the client does not need to install some special application to generate PDF from the HTML content.

[liucougar]

any hint how to implement this with pure javascript?

[jbond@…]

You can have a look at:

​http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/acrobat/sdk/index.html

It's probably technically possible, but mapping the CSS and HTML markup to PDF is huge, not to mention it's totally ineficient to do this in the browser.

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[guest]

Here's the javascript bit:

​http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/acrobat/sdk/index_doc.html#js

[liucougar]

uhm, it will require installation of the acrobat javascript extension in client side...

[Adam Peller]

a possible editor extension, but the Adobe dependency can't go in dijit (and this feature is probably beyond the scope of the dijit editor)

[Tom Trenka]

This feature is kind of beyond the scope of almost anything :) I don't know of any way (despite the API above) that one can translate markup to PDF on a client without the installation of third party software, and to date (Gears notwithstanding) this is not something we've wanted to be involved with.

As far as I know.

I'll keep it open for now as a project idea but at some point I'm going to need a place for all of them :)

[Tom Trenka]

I think that, given the technical feasibility of something like this, I am going to close this ticket as "wontfix"; these kinds of operations are really better off done on the server-side as it is.