Converting base64 string to PDF in memory

Wed Mar 30 11:30:39 UTC 2022

I happened to find this, which may also help...
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

If you are talking about a JSON control with Javascript coding...

regards
Phil Potter
Based in Chester in the UK.

On 30/03/2022 11:17, Phil (OmnisList) wrote:
> Hi Mayada,
>
> Following this link, I was trying to understand your requirements...
>
> Do you have, what Omnis calls a HTML control, to display a PDF?
>
> and your query is how to get a base 64 rest API reply into that HTML 
> control?
>
> If you had such a HTML control, then it would have some method call to 
> set the contents, which if its under your control, you could make it 
> accept base64 data.
>
> I'm thinking your meaning something like signature:
> https://github.com/OmnisStudio/Omnis-Signature
>
> Which I modified and added methods to for my needs...
>
> indeed there is a PDF object there also, which maybe of help?
> https://github.com/OmnisStudio/Omnis-JSPDFDevice
>
> Or, are you talking about some other html control thing?
>
> regards
> Phil Potter
> Based in Chester in the UK.
>
> On 30/03/2022 03:23, malkishtini at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hi Scotte,
>>
>> Thank you for sharing your idea.
>> It is a good one to experiment when using oBrowser in a desktop app.
>>
>> For now, I need to do the conversion in a JS client (that runs 
>> directly in a
>> browser) and render the pdf into an Html control.
>> But I'll keep your approach in mind in case I can get it to work with 
>> the
>> Html control.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Mayada
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: omnisdev-en<omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com>  On Behalf Of
>> Scotte Meredith
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 5:22 PM
>> To: OmnisDev List - English<omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
>> Subject: Re: Converting base64 string to PDF in memory
>>
>> Hi, Miyada --
>>
>> I've only played with this a little, but here is an area to explore.
>>
>> You can force HTML directly into the oBrowser component using 
>> $setdataurl.
>>
>> Create the html as a string or binary and for the images or PDF you 
>> should
>> be able to uuencode it as an in-line image or embedding as you would 
>> for a
>> webpage.
>>
>> Here is an example with simple html, using both the character and binary
>> options.
>>
>> On a window with an oBrowser component named xBrowser:
>>
>> Calculate ibnURL as chartoutf8('<html><body><p>Something
>> here</p></body></html>') Do
>> $cinst.$objs.xBrowser.$setdataurl(ibnURL,'text/html')
>> ## or
>> Calculate icURL as '<html><body><p>Something here</p></body></html>'
>> Do $cinst.$objs.xBrowser.$setdataurl(icURL,'text/html')
>>
>>
>>> On Mar 29, 2022, at 10:52 AM,malkishtini at gmail.com  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>> Thank you for your feedback.
>>> I'm afraid that we might end up doing the same thing if we cannot find
>>> another solution in Omnis.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if Brainy data has a plug in to help with this
>>> conversion, as we do use their driver to create the pdf in memory.
>>>
>>> We found a way to do the conversion in Javascript,
>>> https://base64.guru/developers/javascript/examples/decode-pdf, but not
>>> sure yet how to make this work with the JS client and the html object.
>>> Need to do more digging.
>>>
>>> Thank you & best regards,
>>> Mayada
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: omnisdev-en<omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com>  On Behalf
>>> Of Andrew Stolarz
>>> Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 12:41 PM
>>> To: OmnisDev List - English<omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Converting base64 string to PDF in memory
>>>
>>> Mayada,
>>>
>>> I was looking to do something similar a number of years ago. It's my
>>> understanding that with the JS client, you need to save the PDF to
>>> disk before being able to display it in a JS form.
>>>
>>> We ended up placing the PDF's into a temp location and cleared them
>>> out after.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 11:24 AM<malkishtini at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello $list,
>>>>
>>>> I have a project to convert a base64 string (which I get from an
>>>> external REST API) to a PDF and display in a JS form without saving
>>>> any file to a disk (i.e., convert it to a PDF in memory and display
>>>> it in an HTML object in the JS form (Studio 8.1.7)).
>>>> I have not done this before, so the first thing I thought about was
>>>> to post a question to the list to see if anyone has done something
>>>> similar before and could kindly share some ideas with me.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance for any hints/thoughts.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Mayada
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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>> 509/998-0991
>>
>>
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