Have used Crystal a lot in the past and like it. However moved to CF Report Builder and while it is probably missing 50% of the functionality of Crystal it is still good and does all the reports we have ever need to do.
Regards Dale Fraser http://learncf.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gareth Edwards Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2008 4:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [cfaussie] Re: Web Reporting Barry, Depends on what your trying to do, but a good option might be to create some java classes that integrate with Itext that you can call from Coldfusion. Depends if you want to get your hands dirty with Java I guess, but there are a lot of resources on creating documents with Itext. Cheers Gareth. Barry Beattie wrote: > for a situation where it was a Turnkey app (running off CF std OEM) > and needed dynamic user-defined fields and criteria ... the report > builder wasn't going to cut it. > > it turned out for CF7, cfreport and cfdocument wasn't going to cut it either. > > so one of the guys hacked the iText library to bits and did great > things with it, calling from CF. Does all the things you were talking > about to produce documents (esp PDF's) and he's now got it > pixel-perfect to be able to print cheques, invoices, etc. He spent > quite a while on it spread over the last couple of years but ended up > with very good results. > > just an FYI on what someone else is doing. > > > > > (Gareth.E - you on list to say whether this is still viable > now-a-days, starting from scratch?) > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
