Thomas
Over the last couple of weeks I have been having a go at writing an agent-based routine that spiders selected articles, prints the articles to PDF and attaches these for archiving purposes. The idea being that sometimes urls no longer work and that the iWatch DB becomes some kind of reference DB with useful articles.
Unfortunately I had to stop my (several) attempts. The code to retrieve the info and attach the information worked fine, but I couldn't find a Java library that writes html to PDF in a decent way …
I found several … either they didn't compile correctly, used outdated html standards that screwed up the positioning in the PDF or cost $2,500-$4,000 …
Except if you have some other experience/references, it is back to square one.
– PC