Actually free if you are using Mac OS X.
Don't really know how many PDF options are out there for Active4D. I've used
PDFlib plugin for year and while it is great, it's not that easy to use. It's
not hard, but you have to switch gears to a LOGO type language. Most of the PDF
stuff I needed was simple forms or reports - something I could do in HTML and
CSS. Telling the user to just print the browser window is not a good option. I
tried Prince XML, but $3.5K is a little high for a server license. wkpdf works,
but only uses inline styles.
I used to be an Applescript guru - well maybe not guru, but I did an awful lot
of stuff in Applescript that should have been done in something else. I
searched for an Applescript routine for years that would use Safari to create a
PDF file for years and finely found one that works.
I created a test circuit that uses parts of that script. That script is called
from "Launch External Process" to create a PDF file from a saved HTML file -
including CSS.
If your are interested.
<http://github.com/salex/active4dwork>
Steve Alex
P.S. There is also a json2.a4l library out there that has several versions of
a json parse method. At least a couple of members have expressed a need for
such an animal. Maybe the open source approach will produce one that works
correctly for Active4D
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