[webkit-dev] Using WebKit renderer to produce PDF output

[Dominik Roettsches]

Hi Ben,

> >> I need to produce a tool that can generate PDFs from HTML. The best
> >> solution I can think of is to use WebKit's layout engine, and plug my own
> >> PDF generator in as a renderer backend.

On both, Windows or Linux, you could try using Cairo's PDF backend for your purpose [1], i.e. create a modified cairo-based GraphicsContext that outputs to PDF.

Regards,

Dominik

[1] http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-pdf-surface.html


> -----Original Message-----
> From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org
> [mailto:webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Ben Harper
> Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:42 PM
> To: Darin Adler
> Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Using WebKit renderer to produce PDF output
>
> Unfortunately the platform is Windows. Regarding the method that
> you're describing - I assume the PDF generation is handled by
> CoreGraphics?
>
> Ben
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> > On May 13, 2009, at 2:11 PM, Ben Harper wrote:
> >
> >> I need to produce a tool that can generate PDFs from HTML. The best
> >> solution I can think of is to use WebKit's layout engine,
> and plug my own
> >> PDF generator in as a renderer backend. I don't want to
> reinvent the wheel
> >> though - so I'm asking here has this been done already, or
> are there other
> >> obvious solution out there that I'm missing?
> >
> > It depends what platform you're talking about. The Mac OS X
> version of
> > WebKit already offers this capability, since printing on
> Mac OS X is based
> > on PDF. The PDFOperationWithView method of NSPrintOperation
> can work for
> > this purpose.
> >
> >    -- Darin
> >
> >
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