I decided to &quot;svn co&quot; afew open source apps particularly Code::Blocks and see how they handle exporting of documents.<div>Styling of content is handled differently and independently for each output format.</div><div>

Sadly HTML styling is not given enough emphasis in c/c++ pdf libs.</div><div>Could have been a very very usefull shortcut.</div><div><font><font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></span></font></div>

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Hey James, did you ever find a solution to your problem?<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:07 PM, James Nzomo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kazikubwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">kazikubwa@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Never heard of it before but looks very very USEFULL. <div>Lemme see how to work with it.<div><div><font><font><div>
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<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/2  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info" target="_blank">ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info</a>&gt;</span><div><div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">




<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>2012/11/1 James Nzomo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kazikubwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">kazikubwa@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">






@Ashok, Not really rendering html as pdf, but specifying styling &amp; images using basic html.<div>Take TCPDF (php pdf lib)  for example. It has a function writeHTML() illustrated here <a href="http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_006.phps" target="_blank">http://www.tcpdf.org/examples/example_006.phps</a><br>








<div><br></div><div>@wanjohi. I&#39;ve used libharu. I&#39;m now considering adding the above functionality to it.</div><div><br></div><div>I basically want to generate &amp; export some reports to basic HTML,PDF and maybe excell without too much programming overhead. The HTML &amp; PDF exports must look simmilar.</div>








<div><div><br clear="all"></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Have you looked into using XSL-FO ? </div><div><br></div><div>Ashok</div><div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

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<br><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">2012/11/1 Wanjohi Ndegwa <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:andegs2000@gmail.com" target="_blank">andegs2000@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">








<a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58730/open-source-pdf-library-for-c-c-application" target="_blank">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58730/open-source-pdf-library-for-c-c-application</a><br><br>But at the end of the day it will depend what you intend to achieve in your application.<br>









<br>Hope this helps<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:01 PM, James Nzomo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kazikubwa@gmail.com" target="_blank">kazikubwa@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>









</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Does anyone know any such nice lib?...prefferably free (as in beer) :)<br clear="all">

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