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Thank you so much. Worked perfectly!

Regards from Brazil,

Ved

Ved added these pithy words on Sep 25 08 at 1:26 pm

@Ved

No problem, it was actually quite simple, AlivePDF did all the work. I just made it do something interesting to spark some creativity from flash/flex folks.

I live in a Brazilian area, so not exactly Brazil, but at least I get some good food.

Alex Britez added these pithy words on Sep 25 08 at 8:25 pm

@Vivek,

I found this on the AlivePDF Forum from a user named java_rule, See if this works:

java_rule’s environment:
AlivePDF v. 0.1.4.4
Adobe Reader 8.1.2
JDK 1.5
Flex 3

package javaPDF;

import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;

public class CreatePDF extends HttpServlet {

public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException {
doGet(req, resp);
}

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException {
int i = 0;
int k = 0;
int maxLength = req.getContentLength();
byte[] bytes = new byte[maxLength];
String method = req.getParameter(”method”);
String name = req.getParameter(”name”);
ServletInputStream si = req.getInputStream();
while (true) {
k = si.read(bytes, i, maxLength);
i += k;
if (k == -1){
break;
}
}
if (bytes != null) {
ServletOutputStream stream = resp.getOutputStream();
resp.setContentType(”application/pdf”);
resp.setContentLength(bytes.length);
resp.setHeader(”Content-Disposition”,method + “;filename=” + name);
stream.write(bytes);
stream.flush();
stream.close();
} else {
resp.setContentType(”text”);
resp.getWriter().write(”bytes is null”);
}
}
}

var myPDF:PDF = new PDF ( Orientation.PORTRAIT, Unit.MM, Size.A4 );

myPDF.setDisplayMode( Display.FULL_PAGE, Layout.SINGLE_PAGE );

myPDF.addPage();
myPDF.addImage(pie,
1,
1,
100,
100,
ImageFormat.JPG ,
100,
160,
ResizeMode.FIT_TO_PAGE,
BlendMode.DARKEN,
true,
“”);

myPDF.save(
Method.REMOTE,
‘http://localhost:8080/JSP_PDF_Generator/CreatePDF’,
Download.ATTACHMENT,
‘myPDF.pdf’ );

Alex Britez added these pithy words on Sep 29 08 at 4:20 am

This is great!

Are there any .NETers out there that could post an ASPX equivalent of the PHP script?

Greg added these pithy words on Oct 20 08 at 6:47 pm

do you have something for coldfusion, and also how could I convert a flex form into pdf…regards.

Gus

gustavo Duenas added these pithy words on Oct 24 08 at 9:43 am

The demo doesn’t seem to work. The generated pdf is saved but will not open in Acrobat or preview. I’m using Firefox 3.0.3 on Mac OSX 10.4.11

Chris added these pithy words on Oct 29 08 at 5:06 pm

@Chris just realized you did try Preview. Hmmm… Have you tried any other AlivePDF examples? Let me know if that. Thanks

Alex Britez added these pithy words on Oct 29 08 at 7:51 pm

Any ideas how we could rewrite your php file onto coldfusion?

gustavo Duenas added these pithy words on Nov 03 08 at 9:49 am

Does anyone know if Thibault Imbert or anyone else has a ruby on rails version of the server side script?

jason added these pithy words on Nov 11 08 at 1:30 pm

hi alex that very good for example and if we have a word document how to export to pdf.

you have any idea?

thanks!

nueng added these pithy words on Nov 21 08 at 9:23 am

To JFB:

Copy the AlivePDF.swc in the bin folder from the zip filer folder to the libs in your Flex project. The server needs to support PHP.

I wonder how to set the page output size(Letter, Legal or 11×17 for example) and orgintation.

Hope this helps.

yijia lai added these pithy words on Dec 12 08 at 1:09 pm

wonderful opst))

Luna added these pithy words on Jan 18 09 at 1:58 pm

I have created a demo app for generating pdf from a VBox with dynamic child….it
doesn’t work either. Take a look. I am using Flex4 SDK to save the PDF locally in FP 10.

<![CDATA[
import org.alivepdf.images.ResizeMode;
import org.alivepdf.saving.Method;
import org.alivepdf.images.ImageFormat;
import org.alivepdf.pages.Page;
import org.alivepdf.display.*;
import org.alivepdf.layout.*
import org.alivepdf.pdf.PDF;

private var mPDF:PDF;

private function onPDFCreate():void
{
mPDF = new PDF(Orientation.PORTRAIT, Unit.MM, Size.A4 );
mPDF.setDisplayMode( Display.FULL_PAGE, Layout.SINGLE_PAGE );
mPDF.setTitle(‘Module’);
for(var i:int=0; i

Need a quick solution…please help!!

sunpatel added these pithy words on Mar 03 09 at 9:29 am

simply superb.

bluerain added these pithy words on Jun 02 09 at 10:46 am