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PDF writer

DotHRB can easily create PDF files. While not intended as full-featured module, it offers an efficient way to quickly generate pdf files without any additional dependency.

Important

These are lightweight, high-speed exporting functions, not full-scale document manipulation engines. They are optimized strictly for streaming clean tabular data directly into PDF format without complex external dependencies.

#include "dothrb.ch"

class DemoController from ApiController

   method init constructor

   method get
   method getfile

end class

method init(cName) class DemoController

   ::super:init(cName)

   ::authorize()

   return Self

method getfile() class DemoController

   local hParams := ::getRequestParams(ALLOW_METHOD_GET)
   local db
   local res
   local cFile
   local cName := "demo.pdf"

   db := getDbConn(::hClaims)
   res := db:useModelRead(new DemoModel(), hParams)
   db:close()

   cFile := res2file(res, cName) // create cName file with res values as rows/cols

   return ::sendAttachment(cFile, cName)

or

#include "dothrb.ch"

function main()

   local oPdf := new PdfFile("Test.pdf")

   oPdf:textat(1, 10, "test")
   oPdf:textat(2, 10, "10")
   oPdf:textat(3, 10, dtoc(date()))

   oPdf:end()

return nil