Regarding issues after loading HTML

[LyingDoc]

What I'm currently facing is that there's no way to convert HTML to HTML or images. This is mainly because Firefox and Google Chrome have significant incompatibilities with HTML styles. I think it's possible to convert to PDF and image formats

[rbri]

@LyingDoc not really sure that i got your point - maybe you can add a bit more details.

[LyingDoc]

@LyingDoc not really sure that i got your point - maybe you can add a bit more details.

What I mean is, when using your htmlunit browser free mode to open and load the final HTML page, I am unable to find the Java SDK for converting HTML to PDF and images. My need is for you to add a feature that can convert HTML to PDF and images

[rbri]

@LyingDoc ah ok,

at first HtmlUnit is a headless 'browser' therefore there is no layouting and this means is not any kind of page rendering.

What you can do...

• get the page (and wait until all the js has enhanced the page)
• then use org.htmlunit.SgmlPage.asXml() to generte a XHTML string from the current state of the page
• then use eg. OpenPDF-html to convert this into a pdf

For generting an image some peoples trying html2canvas in the past. But because of some shortcommings in the js support by HtmlUnit, this did not work at the moment (there was a lot of improvments to the htmlunit-js stuff, maybe i have to have a look at this again).

Maybe that helps a bit... if not let me know and i will try to help more

[LyingDoc]

@LyingDoc ah ok,

at first HtmlUnit is a headless 'browser' therefore there is no layouting and this means is not any kind of page rendering.

What you can do...

* get the page (and wait until all the js has enhanced the page)

* then use org.htmlunit.SgmlPage.asXml() to generte a XHTML string from the current state of the page

* then use eg. OpenPDF-html to convert this into a pdf

For generting an image some peoples trying html2canvas in the past. But because of some shortcommings in the js support by HtmlUnit, this did not work at the moment (there was a lot of improvments to the htmlunit-js stuff, maybe i have to have a look at this again).

Maybe that helps a bit... if not let me know and i will try to help more

I have used html2pad and openhtmlpaf in itextpaf, but these two SDKs have CSS incompatibility issues, especially for some unique CSS and Firefox or Google exclusive CSS that are not supported,