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vladimirB

Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

Orbeon has 2 ways to generate PDF - automatic and template-based per:
http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/user-guide/form-builder-user-guide#TOC-PDF-generation

I cant find any examples on AUTOMATIC way. It might looks simple and obvious to authors of orbean, but not for me.

Please - can someone point me to the right direction. I just want to see in PDF exactly what I see on my HTML page.

I guess there 2 pieces of puzzle: xform:submission attached to button/link and action handler on the back end.

Thanks, Vladimir

Alessandro Vernet

Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

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Vladimir,

If you are not providing a PDF template, then there is nothing you
need to do. You just deploy the form and hit the PDF button to "print"
the current form.

Alex

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:37 AM, vladimirB <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> Orbeon has 2 ways to generate PDF - automatic and template-based per:
> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/user-guide/form-builder-user-guide#TOC-PDF-generation
> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/user-guide/form-builder-user-guide#TOC-PDF-generation
>
> I cant find any examples on AUTOMATIC way. It might looks simple and obvious
> to authors of orbean, but not for me.
>
> Please - can someone point me to the right direction. I just want to see in
> PDF exactly what I see on my HTML page.
>
> I guess there 2 pieces of puzzle: xform:submission attached to button/link
> and action handler on the back end.
>
> Thanks, Vladimir
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vladimirB

Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

Thanks for quick response, however I must provide more details.

We use JSP ( xforms tags are just custom tag libraries -right?)

So how do I add that PDF link/button on JSP page?

Alessandro Vernet

Re: Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

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Vladimir,

Ah; the PDF button is a feature of Form Runner, so it only works if
you use Form Builder to create your forms. And I gather that this is
not what you are doing, since you mention JSPs; is that right?

Alex

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:14 PM, vladimirB <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> Thanks for quick response, however I must provide more details.
>
> We use JSP ( xforms tags are just custom tag libraries -right?)
>
> So how do I add that PDF link/button on JSP page?
>
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vladimirB

Re: Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

That's right - JSP with xforms custom tags.

vladimirB

Re: Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

Alex - please do not leave me alone :-)

Erik Bruchez

Re: Re: Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

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Vladimir,

Hooking this up is unfortunately not just a one-liner. In fact, that's
one of the reasons we created Form Runner: to make this kind of
functionality available out of the box, without you having to spend a
lot of time putting things together again.

In Form Runner, the magic occurs mostly here:

http://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/tree/master/src/resources/apps/fr/print/
http://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/blob/master/src/resources/apps/fr/print/print-pdf-notemplate.xpl

This pipeline runs the XForms page behind the scene, captures its
XHTML output, and then runs it through oxf:xhtml-to-pdf, which
outputs, well, a PDF, which is then serialized to the client.

So that's the theory. Maybe you can get inspiration from that.

-Erik

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vladimirB

Re: Re: Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

Thanks Erik -I did not expect it to be easy. Will do some digging.

btw- Where is Alex? - is he on vacation? :-)

vladimirB

Re: Re: Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

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Hi Erik
I understood what you said and looks like I just need to properly call pdf routine and pass instance on.
But make print PDF working from JSP... I have read bunch of threads related to it and I need "big guy" assistance :-)

What I have:
I have "Separate deployment": orbeon in one place and my java app in another.
My web.xml is attached web.xml
My jsp attached test-pdf1.jsp very simple test_look_like

ORBEON: 3.7, I do not have war file, instead I have extracted war in: SERVER\webapps\orbean
I have downloaded entire FR folder and saved it to webapps\orbeon\WEB-INF\resources\apps\fr.
Welcome and other app are working
Configuration: added line <page path-info="/pdf" model="apps/fr/print/print-pdf-notemplate.xpl"/>
in webapps\orbeon\WEB-INF\resources\page-flow.xml

But it looks like I cant even submit - getting "error code received when submitting instance: 500 " from class org.orbeon.oxf.xforms.XFormsModelSubmission$XFormsSubmissionException

Kind of useful threads
http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/PDF-td33559.html
http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/Can-a-PDF-of-what-is-displayed-in-the-browser-be-generated-via-the-XFORM-used-to-generate-the-HTML-b-td1471489.html

What did I miss? do you have any working sample?
Any help guidance is appreciated.
Thanks
Vlad

Erik Bruchez

Re: Re: Re: Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

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Vlad,

The PDF pipeline in Form Runner probably won't work as is, because it
assumes quite a bit of the Form Runner infrastructure. I guess you are
getting a 500 error because some error occurs in that pipeline.

The "working sample" is Form Runner ;)

I understand your pain but if you want to duplicate that functionality
of Form Runner in your app, without actually using Form Runner, you
will probably need to understand that particular Form Runner code:
what the pipelines do, and what data they use.

-Erik

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:10 AM, vladimirB <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Hi Erik
> I understood what you said and looks like I just need to properly call pdf
> routine and pass instance on.
> But make print PDF working from JSP... I have read bunch of threads related
> to it and I need "big guy" assistance :-)
>
> What I have:
> I have "Separate deployment": orbeon in one place and my java app in
> another.
> My web.xml is attached
> http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/file/n2254743/web.xml
> web.xml
> My jsp attached
> http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/file/n2254743/test-pdf1.jsp
> test-pdf1.jsp very simple test_look_like
>
> ORBEON: 3.7, I do not have war file, instead I have extracted war in:
> SERVER\webapps\orbean
> I have downloaded entire FR folder and saved it to
> webapps\orbeon\WEB-INF\resources\apps\fr.
> Welcome and other app are working
> Configuration: added line <page path-info="/pdf"
> model="apps/fr/print/print-pdf-notemplate.xpl"/>
> in webapps\orbeon\WEB-INF\resources\page-flow.xml
>
> But it looks like I cant even submit - getting "error code received when
> submitting instance: 500 " from class
> org.orbeon.oxf.xforms.XFormsModelSubmission$XFormsSubmissionException
>
> Kind of useful threads
> http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/PDF-td33559.html
> http://orbeon-forms-ops-users.24843.n4.nabble.com/Can-a-PDF-of-what-is-displayed-in-the-browser-be-generated-via-the-XFORM-used-to-generate-the-HTML-b-td1471489.html
>
>
> What did I miss? do you have any working sample?
> Any help guidance is appreciated.
> Thanks
> Vlad
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Karolin Heiss

Re: Re: Re: Orbeon output to PDF - AUTOMATIC way sample needed

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Hello Vlad

Did you manage to generate PDFs with your separate deployment?

Thank you for the information,
Karolin