Hi All I have a listbox on a webpage which is populated and I’m looking to create a copy of it to pdf as a web file. I can ‘draw’ the listbox line by line and populate the results from the weblistbox content but that seems a looooonnnnggg way round. Looking at the docs I can see pdflistbox which …

[image] Grant A: examples Have-you downloaded the Xojo Examples (from the IDE) ?

Hi Thanks for the response , unfortunately I cant find anything with pdflistbox or copying a weblist box in the examples. thanks Grant

you must look at the pdftable class, make your listbox (which must be a subclass of the xojo listbox) have the class interface PDFTableDataSource, to send the data to the pdfdocument you create using the pdfdocument.addtable method. https://documentation.xojo.com/api/pdf/pdftable.html#pdftable

Hi David thanks for the response , it looks as if the code required MBS plugins which I haven’t got. Thanks anyway Grant

Hi Jean Thanks for the response I’m not sure my skills are up to your suggestion without so further expansion if your willing. Thanks Grant

here is an explaination how to do it [image] Adding Tables to PDFDocument Announcements Originally published at: Adding Tables to PDFDocument – Xojo Programming Blog Starting with Xojo 2022r3 it is possible to create and add tables to PDF documents using Xojo’s PDFTabl…

Hi Jean That looks perfect, I will study with great interest.

Copy weblistbox to PDF

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David_Cox (David Cox) August 23, 2024, 12:09pm 4

In my MBS seminar on REST PDF I converted a WebListBox to HTML then converted that to a PDF using wkHTML2PDF. The link to the code is: https://www.holymackerelsoftware.com/Downloads/ExportHTMLToPDF.zip