I have a UI Document in Lotus Notes which has an action button “Convert” When clicked it will create a PDF document with the same content as the UI Document.
How can I achieve this?
Subject: Converting UI Documents into PDF Documents
Not easily. There are a couple of approaches though:
I’ve used iText (Entreprenerd — The Book about iText), a free Java API for creating PDF’s from notes. You have to build your output from scratch, so if you’re mirroring a UIDocument, you’ll need to manually keep the design in step. It was great for a project we had where the produced PDF was independent of the layout of the notes doc.
Another option you have is the use of a PrintToPDF style application (PDF995 is a good one - www.pdf995.com). These install as a virtual printer and prompt for an output path. This will preserve the link to UI doc, but does require that the user selects the printer and enters the filename.
Hope that helps
Kieran