I use wkhtmltopdf, It is cross platform and works very well.

https://wkhtmltopdf.org <https://wkhtmltopdf.org/>

Dani Beaubien
Open Road Development

> On Nov 3, 2019, at 9:24 AM, John DeSoi via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I'm not aware of a way to do that in native 4D. I use Node with Puppeteer and 
> headless Chrome. This provides a way to specify parameters such as headers, 
> footers, and orientation. I have it setup to run on the server and clients 
> can call a server procedure to convert HTML to PDF. Very fast and reliable.
> 
> John DeSoi, Ph.D.
> 
> 
>> On Nov 3, 2019, at 10:03 AM, Mitchell Shiller via 4D_Tech 
>> <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I generate an HTML document that is displayed in a WebArea.
>> Once completed, I need to generate a PDF procedurally. (No user interaction)
>> 
>> Is there a way to either
>> 1) print out a Web Area ( the contents could be more than 1 page long)
>> 2) convert the HTML to a PDF.
>> 
>> I am on Mac. 4Dv17R5.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> Mitch
> 
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