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Posted: April 1, 2019
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What are the options in Pega to generate styled PDF's
We are using pega 8.2 and looking for generating a nice PDF file. We need to retain the styling of the section.
Anybody knows the downsize of using Eform.
Thanks,
Pravin
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Posted: 1 year ago
Thank you.
We tried first options but results are not that great.
We dont want to use inline style and trying to avoid a duplicate sections for generating pdf and other UI purpose.
Posted: 1 year ago
Pega has provided one css file for pdf "pyCompactStylesForPDF" which has minimal styles ,you have to include that in your HTML stream where you are including the section in HTML Stream. Then it picks most of the styles but we need to make changes according to our requirement which you have to do by overriding the css.
You can create one Rule-Obj-HTML rule and define the styles in it between <style></style> tags. On any HTML rule used to generate PDF's first include that HTML file.
You can also add inline style to a smart layout section. Include the section into a HTML. Use the Property-Set-HTML or Property-Set-Stream method and pass the above HTML rule. Use “HTMLToPDF” OOTB activity that forms the pdf data.