Hello, Maybe my intentions were not clear enough, actually I was not comparing wkhtmltopdf and Qweb but the module report_webkit with new QWeb repot system. The objective of this thread is to disambiguate the current situation with the two reports system, and inform community that Camptocamp will maintained report_webkit ecosystem for release 8.
For the other points, Olivier gave all needed information : ) Regards Nicolas 2014-02-18 11:53 GMT+01:00 Niels Huylebroeck <n...@agaplan.eu>: > Nicolas, > > I can't see how you can compare wkhtmltopdf and qweb ? > Wouldn't it make more sense to compare jinja2 with qweb ? > > I can see some benefit in using qweb to generate the underlying html since > it would allow inheritance for report generation (stacking multiple reports > on top of the same base templates) and reducing the number of templating > languages to learn while developing with OpenERP. > But in the end if you want to print to pdf you will have to either use > wkhtmltopdf or the browser's own ability to convert html to paginated > format/layout and save or print the output. > > Currently though I'm not sure if qweb is used for generating the screen > layout when you do a print (preview) from the browser. Most of the layout > there is defined by the regular model view afaik. > > Regards, > Niels >
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