I thought so, because i also had the same kind of problem except it was in ASP.NET C#, I decided to implement the PDF design separately as a template and then paste whatever content that was needed in the report on the template before merging it and downloading it to the user.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:52 PM, James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com> wrote:

I decided to "svn co" afew open source apps particularly Code::Blocks and see how they handle exporting of documents.
Styling of content is handled differently and independently for each output format.
Sadly HTML styling is not given enough emphasis in c/c++ pdf libs.
Could have been a very very usefull shortcut.

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2012/11/12 Wanjohi Ndegwa <andegs2000@gmail.com>
Hey James, did you ever find a solution to your problem?

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:07 PM, James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com> wrote:

Never heard of it before but looks very very USEFULL.
Lemme see how to work with it.

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2012/11/1 James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com>
@Ashok, Not really rendering html as pdf, but specifying styling & images using basic html.
Take TCPDF (php pdf lib) for example. It has a function writeHTML() illustrated here http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_006.phps

@wanjohi. I've used libharu. I'm now considering adding the above functionality to it.

I basically want to generate & export some reports to basic HTML,PDF and maybe excell without too much programming overhead. The HTML & PDF exports must look simmilar.

Have you looked into using XSL-FO ?

Ashok

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2012/11/1 Wanjohi Ndegwa <andegs2000@gmail.com>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58730/open-source-pdf-library-for-c-c-application

But at the end of the day it will depend what you intend to achieve in your application.

Hope this helps

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:01 PM, James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know any such nice lib?...prefferably free (as in beer) :)

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