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Topic: Re: Generating PDF's using Acrobat - IE CSS support (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Acrobat 6.0, Msg: 89549
From: LeonardR
Date: 6/11/2003 09:29 AM
At 07:49 PM 6/10/2003 +1000, p-pdf-acrobat6 Listmanager wrote:
>We have a client who uses our web service to take HTML web pages and
>generate PDF docs using Adobe Acrobat 4 (their company standard).
You aren't using Acrobat on the web server itself, are
you?!?!?! You do now that Acrobat isn't normally licensed for server
usage and you'd need a special license/permission from Adobe to run it in
this environment. (and even if you got such license/permission, Acrobat is
not technically suited for it!)
>Testing has identified that the conversion from HTML to PDF is less than
>satisfactory - Acrobat 4 doesn't seem to recognize the cascading style
>sheet and as a result the text pitch is too large and tables are misplaced.
That is correct.
>I've been advised that Acrobat 5 handles CSS but not as Internet Explorer
>does.
Also correct.
>Can someone advise whether version 6 is any better at handling this.
Yes, Acrobat 6's "Web Capture" is MUCH improved in MANY areas...
>We use ActivePDF which works fine but they are stuck with Adobe as their
>company standard so the only options are to upgrade (if appropriate) or
>generate the PD for them (not preferred).
If you need the EXACT SAME representation as IE, then you're only
choice is ActivePDF since they use the IE engine to render HTML...
Leonard
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