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How to create a PDF template

To use Flowmailer to create a PDF, you can follow these steps:

  1. From the dashboard, go to Design > Templates;

  2. Click "Create template";
  3. Select Type "XHTML to PDF";

  4. Create a template for the PDF document. A template is an HTML file that contains placeholders for dynamic data. You can use Freemarker syntax to insert the placeholders into the template;

  5. Set up the data model for the template. The data model is a Java object that contains the data that will be used to fill in the placeholders in the template;

  6. Flowmailer will process the template and generate the PDF when applied to a Flow. To do this, you will need to add the template as a Flowstep in a Flow;

Here's an example of a template for a PDF document:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<HTML>
 <head>
    <title>My PDF Document</title>
    <style>/* CSS styles go here */</style>
 </head>
 <body>
    <h1>${title}</h1>
    <p>${content}</p>
 </body>
</html>

In this example, ${title} and ${content} are placeholders for dynamic data that will be filled in when the template is processed.