On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Rick Root wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:03 PM, denstar wrote: >> >> The solution? JasperReports. =) > > Why go with jasperReports when CFREPORT does the same thing (and > actually is jasperReports under the hood)? > > And there are many cases where a true report writer like cfreport (or > jasper) doesn't suit the needs when you just need to produce a PDF > document. If it's not tabular reporting, you pretty much *HAVE* to > use cfdocument. cfdocument and cfreport do not really compete with > each other.
Sure, there's lots of cases where all you want is a quick and dirty PDF, but if you're going through all this effort... and the reports can be served as HTML... ;) But if you really must have a decent cfdocument replacement, there's always flying saucer (https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/). I've got a custom tag for that, which probably works for ACF too (I've only used it in Railo). Really though, JasperReports is sweet for a lot of other reasons. You can export the hell out of those reports. PowerPoint y todo. And with jasperreports, writing the report XML by hand is totally doable, which I don't recall as being doable with cfreport (I could be wrong tho). Anyways, Flying Saucer is nice because you can control a lot of stuff with special CSS. :Den -- The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. Friedrich Nietz ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:338221 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
