[Catalyst] Should I create a new view for rendering a pdf in browser?

[Catalyst] Should I create a new view for rendering a pdf in browser?

	Drew Taylor
	Nov 9, 2011 at 11:05 pm

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Jens Gassmann wrote:
I use Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf ?- maybe Prince is better, but it is
not open source like wkhtml. Also Catalyst::View::Wkhtmltopdf ?supports
Template Toolkit and could render your Templates without much
modifications.

Thanks, I had not heard of Wkhtmltopdf. Noted for future reference.
I've read many good things about Prince, but one thing it is not is
cheap.

Drew

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Steve: Alec - Good point. I've taken for granted that everyone's browser has these plugins. Perhaps conversion is the best option. Steve

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Tomas Doran: Yes. In a perfect world, you'd just say $c->stash( current_view => 'PDF' ) (and set a filename?) to make a pdf... Depends how dirty you want to be :_) Doing something 'proper' with one of these (or also, take your XHTML, apply XSLT => docbook, then make a pdf?) totally works, and if you're prepared to put the effort in, you can make really nice documents.. But _if_ you can deal with something ugly but workable - then just subclass your HTML view, after process write $c->req->body out to a
Thomas Klausner: Hi! If you don't want to use an external binary, you could also use Webkit directly via Gtk3::Webkit though I'm not sure how stable / performant this is. Emmanuel gave a talk about this last weekend during the Twin City Perl Workshop: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/tcpw2011/talk/3836 Here's his script to take a screenshot in various formats: https://github.com/potyl/Webkit/blob/master/screenshot.pl I probably wouldn't embed this directly into Catalyst, but set up a seperate service, so maybe

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