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Service Help – ConvertToPDF

The Sharperlight service offers a wide variety of presentation methods, each with its own set of parameters.

In this post, we will introduce the following method from among the various presentation methods available.

http://abcd.com/mdService1Rest/ConvertToPDF/…

ConvertToPDF
To see this information with your sharperlight service help
{sharperlight service url}/Help#ConvertToPDF
Convert the URL address and return a PDF file.

This requires PrinceXML to be installed to the default location on the SharperLight Server.
The SharperLight Server Authenication mode can only be set to Default or Basic when using the PDF tool.

To control the default css styling used when converting to PDF, put a file called Page.css in the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Prince\Engine\bin folder

Note: that SharperLight Reports will automatically show ‘Save As PDF’ if PrinceXML is installed


Page.css example


@page { size: A3 landscape; margin: 1.3cm ; prince-shrink-to-fit: auto }

 

URL example

http://abcd.com/mdService1Rest/ConvertToPDF?sourceUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fivonlaptopi7%2FmdService1Rest%2FReport%2F%3Fquery%3DADVW.Ranking%26usid%3D0a013ac7e2f749a89fb4139f1b88032bZ%26qmode%3Dreport%26fltCutOff%3D%253C%253D%26fltCutOff_2%3D100000%26fltCutOff2%3D%253C%253D%26fltCutOff2_2%3D1000000%26salt%3D1346654899101Z%26docH%3DRL%26prepareAs%3DPDF%26promptSuppress%3D1%26showTitle%3D1

 
sourceUrl=[encoded_URL] The source URL address to convert to PDF.

Make sure the source URL is encode and include the following parameters to ensure PDF friendly HTML is created when dealing with SharperLight reports

&prepareAs=PDF

&showTitle=1

&usid=XXXXXXXXXX


For Example a sourceUrl may look like the following before URL encoding

http://abcd.com/mdService1Rest/Report/?query=ADVW.Ranking&usid=0a013ac7e2f749a89fb4139f1b88032bZ&qmode=report&fltCutOff=%3C%3D&fltCutOff_2=100000&fltCutOff2=%3C%3D&fltCutOff2_2=1000000&salt=1346654899101Z&docH=RL&prepareAs=PDF&promptSuppress=1&showTitle=1
timeout=[300] Optional. Timeout default to 300 seconds but this can be changed

&timeout=600
options=[xxxx] Optional. Prince PDF command line additional arugments
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