How do you produce your HTML/PDF documents

[Nancy Palmquist]

Well back years ago I wrote one output that used the HTML format and the 
only way to make it sensible was to create the HTML document the way I 
wanted it and reverse engineer to the filepro code.  Filepro would add 
tags when it should not and did not have any complex options for some 
tags.  That was a pain in the behind.

Then I found XSL and XML.  XSL allows you to create a proper HTML 
document with logic to insert the data from an XML document.  In my 
brain it worked very much like filepro, when you create an output page 
and put in field numbers.  It made a nice looking page, since you had 
full access to CSS and XSL and all the stuff for HTML pages.  Then all 
filepro had to do was generate the XML file and you run a program that 
combines the XML with the XSL stylesheet.  I have found this easy to do.

On the PDF stuff, I have not had an opportunity to use filePro's output 
to PDF and more often I have had to develop ways to convert between PCL, 
TIF, PDF etc.  Taking documents apart and rebuilding them.  This is well 
outside the capabilities of filepro and I am not sure I will need the 
filepro to PDF tools any time soon.

Nancy

On 8/17/2020 2:59 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
> Just wondering how often and how many of you push HTML/PDF documents out
> of your filePro application.
>
> Do you use filePro native syntax to produce HTML?  How complex are your
> HTML documents?
>
> For what I have noticed, PDFs are very much in the tank since filePro 
> has provided
> native drivers (or so it seems) to print PDF documents.  I wonder if 
> the community
> in general is OK with its limitations (please share what these are in 
> your case, if you
> wish) have driven you to utilizing other means to produce your PDF 
> documents as well.
>
> I once wrote a PHP script to parse filePro screen and produce the HTML 
> form matching
> the screen.  It took a couple of hours but I was trying to show a 
> friend of mine how simple
> it would be to replace his screen scraper and simply show exactly what 
> he has, replicate
> every screen and write the code to query through his filePro files.
>
> We ended up developing the entire thing in SQL because of scaleability 
> cost and a few other
> reasons he came up with ... don't ask me, I was just writing the 
> code.  ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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