HTML to PDF Conversions

RE: HTML to PDF Conversions

Jenaburton — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:05:56 GMT

You are my hero for the image fix. Thank you!

RE: HTML to PDF Conversions

Swathimdas — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:19:30 GMT

Thanks Stefan! That actually helped. I was able to manage the margins only by giving in page style and not specifying any margins for body or main.

RE: HTML to PDF Conversions

Swathimdas — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:17:52 GMT

Thank you Magesh! That solved my issue!

RE: HTML to PDF Conversions

Stefan Helzle — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:33:10 GMT

I had this working in the past, but it was tricky for me, not being a CSS expert. But I started using this template

https://github.com/danfickle/openhtmltopdf/wiki/Page-features

and after some trial and error, I had it working. I do not have this working code at hand.

To make development faster, I created an interface which had a paragraph field on top to enter the HTML code, a button to start the PDF generating process, and a document viewer below.

RE: HTML to PDF Conversions

Swathimdas — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 06:17:38 GMT

Thank you Stefan Helzle ! That solved my first issue. But I am still struggling to add header and footer. Do you know if there is any limitation with Appian related to below CSS? (Issue: I cannot see bottom-right value when I convert HTML to PDF)

RE: HTML to PDF Conversions

Magesh Waran G — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:00:09 GMT

Swathimdas For the first point, you can store images as Appian documents and reference them in your HTML using the following approach:

"<img appianDocId =" & document(ri!documentImage,"id") & " >"

RE: HTML to PDF Conversions

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:57:57 GMT

My blog post gets your image requirements covered: https://appian.rocks/2023/10/23/great-pdfs-with-appian/

The formatting and CSS can be tricky. On the github repo, you will find great examples I typically start with.

github.com/.../openhtmltopdf