PDFs with Visualforce Pages

Over the past few chapters of this book, you have seen the power of Visualforce technology, with its ability to format virtually any style of HTML, and interact with almost any sources of data; however, the display of these Visualforce pages has always been within a browser, meaning that the results are eventually generated as HTML pages.

There are times when your users may want something more. In this section, you will see how an interview schedule can be produced in PDF form with the candidateinterviewschedule Visualforce page. This page was loaded into your organization as part of the chapter setup. This section will also show you how the PDF this page produces can be attached to an email sent out to candidates. ...

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