HTML TO PDF Example does not work

[Atlas]

I am looking into your editor HTML to PDF conversion demo: http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/pdfexport/defaultcs.aspx and converting the editor to PDF only converts the visible content. If you scroll further down the editor content, you placed a table with browser info and graphics in it, but this data does not render to the pdf, Why?
Is this the only example you have on your site?
Is the pdf conversion tool unable to convert form elements (checkboxes, textboxes) into pdf?
What HTML elements can the generator convert to pdf?

[Rumen]

Hi Nano,

Currently to export a TABLE element, you should add COLGROUP and COL tags for each table row and set table width. You can do that programmatically using the following custom content filter:

<telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEditor1" runat="server" OnClientLoad="OnClientLoad" >
 <ImageManager ViewPaths="~/Images" UploadPaths="~/Images" />
 <ExportSettings OpenInNewWindow="true" />
    <Content>
    </Content>
</telerik:RadEditor>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var editorObject;
    function OnClientLoad(editor, args)
    {
       editor.get_filtersManager().add(new MyFilter());
       editorObject = editor;
    }

    MyFilter = function()
    {
       MyFilter.initializeBase(this);
       this.set_isDom(true);
       this.set_enabled(true);
       this.set_name("RadEditor filter");
       this.set_description("RadEditor filter description");
    }
    MyFilter.prototype =
    {
    //Table neeed 1) COLGOUPS!, 2) width!

       getHtmlContent : function(content)
       {
         var newContent = content;
         var tables = newContent.getElementsByTagName("TABLE");
         var colCount = null;
         var editorDocument = editorObject.get_document();

         for (var i=0; i < tables.length; i++)
         {
                var table = tables[i];

                table.style.width = "0px";

                //If there are colgroups - skip table
                var groups = table.getElementsByTagName("colgroup");
                if (groups.length > 0) continue;//!


                colCount  = table.rows[0].cells.length;
               // create colgroup
               var newColGroup = editorDocument.createElement("colgroup");

               // create cols
               var newCol;
               for(var j=0; j<colCount; j++)
               {
                  // create cols
                  newCol = editorDocument.createElement("col");
                  newColGroup.appendChild(newCol);

               }

               //table.appendChild(newColGroup)
               table.insertBefore(newColGroup, table.firstChild);
         }
         //newContent = newContent.toUpperCase();
         return newContent;
       }
    }

    MyFilter.registerClass('MyFilter', Telerik.Web.UI.Editor.Filter);
    </script>

You can find additional information on how to use the ExportToPdf feature of RadEditor in this forum thread ExportToPdf Roadmap. The third party converter that RadEditor uses to export the HTML to PDF content does not support input elements.

Sincerely yours,
Rumen
the Telerik team

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[Markus]

Hi Rumen

Is your statement: "The third party converter that RadEditor uses to export the HTML to PDF content does not support input elements." still valid?

I couldn't find this restriction in the "Unsupported Features and Scenarios" section of the "RadEditor - Export to PDF" documentation. So it should work now? (If it should work, then I'm doing something wrong, because the controls don't show up in the PDF document.)

Thanks for your answer.

Regards
Markus

[Rumen]

Hi Markus,

I confirm that the built-in PDF exporter library used by RadEditor does not support input and textareas.

What you can try is to use another third party library as the RadPDFProcessing to export the textboxes. You can find an example of integration with it at Extending the RadEditor PDF exporting with PdfFormatProvider. The demo exports only the textboxes contents without the UI of the HTML elements.

Regards,
Rumen
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