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Alex Yakunin

January 12, 2010

Preliminary version of DataObjects.Net Manual in PDF

I've just published preliminary version of DataObjects.Net Manual in PDF.

Do you know a good way or tool allowing to convert HTML with links and paging martup (CSS attributes) to PDF? Actually I didn't thought this is so complex:
  • Adobe Acrobat seems relying on Internet Explorer, that actually understand basic paging rules. But when Acrobat converts the page, somehow it makes IE to simply ignore any paging  attributes in CSS.
  • Google Chrome and Mozilla don't properly handle paging attributes.
  • New Opera ideally prints everything (in particular, to PDF printers). But I can't convert HTML links to PDF links by this way. So should I simply replace them to printable ones in Manual? And, obviously, there is no automatic way to convert TOC links as well. 
  • All online converters I tried produce even worse results. 
So I'd appreciate any advices related to conversion of HTML to PDF.

3 comments:

  1. olorin15:47

    Really good work : this manual is very good, much better than the manual for previous version. I'm not new to dataobjects but I think it will be really useful for new users.

    Have you tried ExpertHtmlToPdf? I don't know if it will work for you but I think it's worth a try.

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  2. Just tested ExpertPDF here: http://www.html-to-pdf.net/Default.aspx#livedemo

    The result is less attractive... So I'll keep looking.

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