Re: Pages to PDF conversion on server from WO app

2009-08-21 Thread Pascal Robert
(Moving it to the general WO list) You can also go with OpenOffice. Not as nice as Pages, but you can find examples of how to do it, and you can even run OOo as a service (and make the document to PDF conversion directly into OOo). But why are you not converting the Pages files to PDF direc

Re: Pages to PDF conversion on server from WO app

2009-08-21 Thread Brendan Duddridge
Pages will be used simply to generate the template. Then we will be injecting photos and text into it dynamically on the server. A user will use a web form to upload photos. Fill out a form with some text, and click a button to download a PDF document. I was hoping we could use Pages since

Re: Pages to PDF conversion on server from WO app

2009-08-21 Thread Pascal Robert
Le 09-08-21 à 16:47, Brendan Duddridge a écrit : Pages will be used simply to generate the template. Then we will be injecting photos and text into it dynamically on the server. A user will use a web form to upload photos. Fill out a form with some text, and click a button to download a PD

Re: Pages to PDF conversion on server from WO app

2009-08-21 Thread Brendan Duddridge
Yes, we were thinking of generating the Pages document on the server then having someone download it, then firing up Pages on a desktop Mac to do an "Export to PDF". I was just trying to see if there was a way we could automate it right on the server without human intervention. We're Mac al

Re: Pages to PDF conversion on server from WO app

2009-08-21 Thread Mike Schrag
I don't know if OpenOffice has the same quality output as Pages. If the Wow factor is important, don't use OOo :-) unless "Wow .. this sucks" qualifies ... ms ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing li

Re: Pages to PDF conversion on server from WO app

2009-08-22 Thread Clive Roberts
Have you looked at FOP. Although not directly what you are after, I used this with Batik to automate rendering to pdf from SVG and it was very successful. On 21 Aug 2009, at 21:57, Brendan Duddridge wrote: Yes, we were thinking of generating the Pages document on the server then having som