I have made an html form. What i want to happen is when the user clicks submit for the page to be emailed as a pdf (like the pdf that comes up if you print the webpage). I've been looking a all sorts of script but nothing seems to do what I want.
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possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/564650/convert-html-to-pdf-in-net – Manatherin Jul 27 '11 at 13:18
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@Manatherin - how did you get .net from this question? – Daniel A. White Jul 27 '11 at 13:19
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@Daniel Im not sure i did, the top rated answer on that has a comment saying it is a standalone executable. You can launch it as a process, passing a URL of the HTML document as argument. a few of the other answers e.g. the one from stuart suggest non .NET examples – Manatherin Jul 27 '11 at 13:33
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You will have to have a server-side component that takes the values, creates the PDF, and then e-mails it appropriately.
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You'll be surprised to hear that not all browsers can easily make pdfs out of web pages. Hence, there is no universal JavaScript command that simply taps into a browser's capabilities. That leaves you with options:
- Generate the pdf on the server (using, say, pdfbox, and send the email right from the server (using good old sendmail).
- Generate the pdf on the server, have the user download it, and then transfer it all to his email client. (Might just work, see on Stackoverflow).
- Generate the PDF in the browser, cross-platform. There are some Javascript-only libraries that can generate PDF.
- Use Safari's PDF capabilities. Safari can make PDFs just in the print dialog. Explain that to your users and call
window.print().
