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Habsnutt
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April 26, 2017
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Saving a Browser page as PDF AND control page breaks

  • April 26, 2017
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We have a Cloud application, which produces reports that can either be printed to paper or to a PDF using one of the many drivers out there.  However, before printing a Report as a PDF, we need to create a "Printer Friendly" version.  Ideally, we would like to be able to capture the screen, but control where page breaks are inserted... ie after 50 lines for example.  Is there an Adobe Tool, or third party partner tool that does that?

Thx in advance for any thoughts/input.

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Karl Heinz Kremer
Karl Heinz Kremer
Adobe Expert
April 27, 2017

Acrobat cannot be used - for technical and licensing reasons - on a server. You are trying to add PDF support to a cloud based service, so I assume that this conversion to PDF would also be done on the server - or, in the cloud. This would rule out Acrobat.

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HabsnuttAuthor
New Participant
April 27, 2017

Thx for yours, Karl.  While our application is a Cloud App in that the functionality is accessed over the Web, it is also a Desktop App, as we allow Users to work "Offline", while disconnected from the Internet.  Information is later synched between the Tablet and Server when an Internet connection is available.  The ability to create a paginated PDF from a screen could be restricted to the Offline mode, or on the Desktop.  If Acrobat was licensed on the Desktop, would it be able to meet the requirement in that case?

Karl Heinz Kremer
Karl Heinz Kremer
Adobe Expert
April 28, 2017

I am not a lawyer and I don't give legal advice, so you need to have your lawyer check the EULA and verify that your use is within the limits expressed in that document.

In general, if you have one user with a license for Acrobat and that user is using Acrobat (in this case by creating PDF files), you are OK. If you have Acrobat installed somewhere so that other users (without a valid license) can use it's functionality, you are outside of what the EULA allows.

Sue Garibaldi
Community Manager
Sue GaribaldiCommunity Manager
Community Manager
April 26, 2017

Hi HabsNutt.

What application are you using? Although I suspect it's Adobe Captivate (you've posted in the Capture CC (the mobile app) forum, I wanted to check before moving it to the correct forum.

Let me know and I"ll make the switch.

Sue.

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HabsnuttAuthor
New Participant
April 26, 2017

Thx for your Sue. I'm sorry if I didn't post my inquiry in the correct

forum. I'm relatively new to the Adobe product line. I'm looking for a

tool that perhaps has an SDK, which we can use in our app, which is

Java-based, to save the Browser screen as a PDF, while letting us set page

breaks based on parameters such as the number of lines/pixels or some other

metric. Not sure that it exists, but worth asking.

Thx for your help

Paul

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Sue Garibaldi <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

Sue Garibaldi
Community Manager
Sue GaribaldiCommunity Manager
Community Manager
April 26, 2017

Hi Paul.

Glad I asked. I'm going to move this to the Acrobat forum; I think that's where you'll have the best chance of getting a useful answer.

Sue.

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