Utilities

*TOOLS/PRINTHTML

Output Formatted Text from HTML

Invocation

CALL "*tools/printhtml", html$, outputchannel, [left], [top], [right], [bottom]

Where:

html$

HTML to convert to formatted text output.

outputchannel

Open channel to print the formatted text output to.

left

Left-most point of the area to print to. If not specified, use the current position.

top

Top-most point of the area to print to. If not specified, use the current position.

right

Right-most point of the area to print to. If not specified, use the maximum right point.

bottom

Bottom-most point of the area to print to. If not specified, use the maximum bottom point.

Description

Convert HTML input into formatted text output on the given open channel. This allows you to use a TinyMCE control for users to input formatted text and then allows you to output it to a PDF or other channel. To define a TinyMCE control, see Using the TinyMCE® HTML Editor.

Only the most common HTML elements that are used to format text are supported with this tool:

HTML Element

Description

<h1> to <h6>

Defines headings

<b>
<strong>

Defines bold

<i>
<em>

Defines italics

<p>

Defines paragraphs

<span>

Defines spans

<br>

Defines line breaks

<hr>

Defines horizontal lines

<ul>
<ol>
<li>

Defines lists

Style attributes

Defines:

Font
Font size
Text color
Underlined text
Horizontal text alignment

(The PrintHTML utility was added in PxPlus 2021.)

Example

This example code is for printing TinyMCE formatted text as a PDF:

open (hfn)"*PDF*;file=output_pdf$"
pdfChan=lfo
call "*tools/printHTML",tinyMCE.ctl'value$,pdfChan,1,1
close (pdfChan)

See Also

*TOOLS/ConvertHTMLColor
FIN CurFont and CurColor (CurColour)