tjp to pdf conversion

[foundjem]

Hello @ALL,
I wonder if there is an option to generate a pdf file directly from the .tjp file. I am a fan of taskjuggler for project management, but I am limited without that option. I have tried a couple of HTML to PDFs but have not had the same experience.

Regards,

Signed-off-by: Armstrong foundjem@ieee.org

[whit2333]

FWIW, I have a makefile that does the following on every page I want as a pdf:

wkhtmltopdf -O Landscape -s Tabloid html/trade_study.html  pdf/trade_study.pdf

It is not the ideal solution but it works OK.

https://wkhtmltopdf.org/

[alentsch]

Although it is not directly printing from TJP, but printing the HTML output from Chromium browser into PDF works very well for me. Make sure to select "Background graphics" in the print dialogue under "More settings" > Options. I also choose minimum margins and scale down to fit to the page (55% or so).
Also opening the PDF in Inkscape and saving as SVG works very well for me.

[jhuscott]

Microsoft Edge works nicely on Linux and MacOS:
/opt/microsoft/msedge/microsoft-edge --headless --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf=report.pdf ./docs/index.html

I use pdfunite which is part of the poppler package to combine multiple reports. Here's an example script I call pdfgen.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
/opt/microsoft/msedge/microsoft-edge --headless --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf=./temp1.pdf ./docs/index.html
/opt/microsoft/msedge/microsoft-edge --headless --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf=./temp.pdf ./docs/WBSc.html
pdfunite ./temp1.pdf ./temp.pdf ./report.pdf; mv report.pdf temp1.pdf
/opt/microsoft/msedge/microsoft-edge --headless --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf=./temp.pdf ./docs/WBS.html
pdfunite ./temp1.pdf ./temp.pdf ./report.pdf; mv report.pdf temp1.pdf
/opt/microsoft/msedge/microsoft-edge --headless --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf=./temp.pdf ./docs/Unallocated.html
pdfunite ./temp1.pdf ./temp.pdf ./report.pdf; mv report.pdf temp1.pdf
/opt/microsoft/msedge/microsoft-edge --headless --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf=./temp.pdf ./docs/Notes.html
pdfunite ./temp1.pdf ./temp.pdf ./report.pdf; mv report.pdf temp1.pdf
/opt/microsoft/msedge/microsoft-edge --headless --no-pdf-header-footer --print-to-pdf=./temp.pdf ./docs/Journal.html
pdfunite ./temp1.pdf ./temp.pdf ./report.pdf
rm temp.pdf temp1.pdf
open ./report.pdf