text_templates::create_pdf_from_html (public)

 text_templates::create_pdf_from_html -html_content html_content

Defined in packages/acs-tcl/tcl/pdf-procs.tcl

The HTML Content is transformed into a PDF file

Switches:

-html_content (required)

HTML Content that is transformed into PDF

Returns:

filename of the pdf file

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:

No testcase defined.

Source code:

    set progname [parameter::get -parameter "HtmlDocBin" -default "htmldoc"]
    set htmldoc_bin [::util::which $progname]
    if {$htmldoc_bin eq ""} {
        error "text_templates::create_pdf_from_html: HTML converter 'progname' not found"
    }

    ad_try {
        set fp [file tempfile tmp_html_filename [ad_tmpdir]/pdf-XXXXXX.html]
        puts $fp $html_content
        close $fp

        # create pdf-file
        set tmp_pdf_filename "${tmp_html_filename}.pdf"
        exec $htmldoc_bin --webpage --quiet -t pdf -f $tmp_pdf_filename $tmp_html_filename

        # return the result file command was successful
        if {[ad_file exists $tmp_pdf_filename]} {
            return $tmp_pdf_filename
        }

    } on error {errorMsg} {
        ns_log Error "Error during conversion from html to pdf: $errorMsg"
    } finally {
        file delete -- $tmp_html_filename
    }
    return ""

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