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    #1

    PDF from HTML

    Has anyone used the Action Javascript PDF from HTML in a recent build? It no longer works and seems to have been broken sometime after 5028 (April 19) was released.
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    Re: PDF from HTML

    I just built a simple test involving one list in a container in a UX and ran it in Live Preview.
    Works fine in 5028.
    For 5159, I get a HTTP status of 500 in response to the POST request.

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      #3
      Re: PDF from HTML

      Originally posted by Davidk View Post
      Has anyone used the Action Javascript PDF from HTML in a recent build? It no longer works and seems to have been broken sometime after 5028 (April 19) was released.
      it is working fine.

      https://www.screencast.com/t/TQeWS6Opf9A

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        #4
        Re: PDF from HTML

        For 5159 (installed on the same machine), in the HTTP response headers for the status 500, I see:

        <h1>500 Internal Server Error</h1>
        <b>Script Error</b><br />Error:Script:html_to_pdf() line:20<br/>
        Error - extra package '[email protected]' is missing, install it to enable the feature.

        I have heard that phantomjs has basically been abandoned since the Google team has come out with Puppeteer (nodejs + Puppeteer seems like the way to go now for this sort of thing)
        Last edited by jgrannis; 07-11-2018, 11:26 AM.

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          Re: PDF from HTML

          Selwyn... I wish I could live my life in Working Preview... but that just isn't feasible the way it is for you.

          Jeff, could you try this... Run your test in Working Preview. This seems to open/install/whatever phantomjs. Now... run your test in a browser... like the real world... and you'll find it works now.

          After running my test in Working Preview... PDF from HTML now works in the browser.

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            #6
            Re: PDF from HTML

            Yeap, that worked after first trying to look at it in Working Preview.

            I almost never open anything in Working Preview.

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              #7
              Re: PDF from HTML

              Thanks for confirming. I guess that's user error... not a bug. I just tried the same "Working Preview trick" for the modal popup tab/shift-tab issue... didn't work... rats.

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                Re: PDF from HTML

                Originally posted by Davidk View Post
                Has anyone used the Action Javascript PDF from HTML in a recent build? It no longer works and seems to have been broken sometime after 5028 (April 19) was released.
                May be a moot point now but FWIW...

                I'm running 5159 for one of my apps and the PDF to HTML never broke for me. I've been using this action JS for probably a couple years now. Maybe that makes a difference in this specific instance you experienced.
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                  Re: PDF from HTML

                  That's because you're probably working with an upgraded installation. If you installed 5159, or any subsequent pre-release, as a new install (not upgrading an existing install), then PDF from HTML would fail if you did not first run it via Working Preview.

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                    Re: PDF from HTML

                    no longer true with today's pre-release build. this build automatically falls back to using the slower wkhtmltopdf.exe if phontomjs.exe (an optional install) is not installed.
                    phantomjs is installed in the IDE by going to the tools, packages... menu. it is installed on the server (when you publish an app) by going to the project properties dialog and selecting Packages.

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                      #11
                      Re: PDF from HTML

                      Thanks for the bug fix.

                      If anyone's interested... this is where PhantomJS came from... search for PhantomJS in the release notes.

                      http://aadocuments.s3.amazonaws.com/...easeNotes.Html

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