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Create PDF from web page

$100-250 USD

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Posted over 17 years ago

$100-250 USD

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This is not an easy project. I want a command line utility that will create a PERFECT PDF from a URL. There are many open source tools and libraries available, but none of them will create a PDF that LOOKS THE SAME AS WHAT YOU SEE IN A BROWSER. THE PDF MUST LOOK JUST LIKE THE BROWSER. This means that the tool must understand HTML, CSS 2.0, Frames, etc... One suggestion I received was to pull the rendering engine from Mozilla and wrap some code around it so that it can be called from the command line. We will use a perl script to pass a single URL or a list of URLS and the name of the output file to your program. The program needs to then fetch the web pages, fetch the stylesheet, fetch the images, and render the PDF to a file. (If more than one URL is given, the each URL starts on a new page. Long web pages can span more then one page in the PDF.) Another application is to have the program work as a web service. When the user of our website clicks a button, the program will be passed the URL as a CGI variable and needs to just return the PDF data so that it is downloaded to the users desktop. To summarize. 1) From command line - receive URL or URLs and output filename. Create perfect PDFs from the URL or URLs and save to file. 2) Be availbe to be called from PHP or CGI so that the PDF is streamed back as download to t he browser. You will need to be very smart and creative to solve this one. We ENVIRONMENT IS LINUX, APACHE, PERL, C++, JAVA, AND PHP ## Deliverables 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows? (depending on the nature? of the deliverables): a)? For web sites or? other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment. b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software? installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). ## Platform Linux (We are NOT running X-windows. This is remote server.)
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