I would like to create a workflow that can convert an HTML page to a pdf file. The image below is an example of what the web page looks like with a map, this map is purely an html file with a layout created in html and request GET links loaded by the website. Can this somehow be read in' as is' via FME and converted to pdf?
I am currently using ColdFusion to render this page and save it as pdf .Unfortunately, this process is very intensive and I would like to put the last paret of this process to an FME server.
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So the map itself is also pure HTML? No image?
The images are generated with get requests in code requesting PNG's in the DPI that i need and are not saved in the HTML itself except for the code that is requesting it. This keeps the size of the HTML to 30kb per sheet.
https://xxxxxs/xxxx/xxx/wms?LAYERS=L1m1&FORMAT;=image%2Fpng8&SLD;=xxxxxxxt%2Fsld%2Fol_sld_L1m1.xml&STYLES;=&TRANSPARENT;=TRUE&SERVICE;=WMS&VERSION;=1.1.1&REQUEST;=GetMap&FORMAT;_OPTIONS=%27dpi:180%27&CQL;_FILTER=stijlid%20IN%20(1%2C2%2C3%2C4%2C5%2C6%2C7)&SRS;=EPSG%3A28992&BBOX;=144684.42187575,479301.52251656,144925.93341201,479481.86241918&WIDTH;=2998&HEIGHT;=2339
In that case, yes, you can use an ImageFetcher to grab the images and a HTTPFetcher to grab the page itself and then produce the layout with the PDFPageFormatter. Speaking from experience, it can be a bit of a hassle to get it looking really nice, but the overall layout doesn't look too difficult.
Just for clarification: you technically wouldn't be converting the HTML page but rather you'd be rebuilding it.