On 9 Jan 2014, at 22:03, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014, at 01:54 PM, jonat...@mugginsoft.com wrote: >> >> >> What is the best approach for generating fixed format report documents in >> Cocoa? >> >> My thoughts: > > This is exactly AppKit's document generation API. It's how TextEdit, > etc. generate their print output. They create (or reuse) an NSTextView, > construct an NSPrintOperation around that view, and run the print > operation. > > Please read "The AppKit Printing API": > <https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/Printing/osxp_printingapi/osxp_printingapi.html> > Thanks. I didn’t think there was much alternative but it always helps to ask.
It some cases it turns out that rather than generating the entire document from scratch I have the option of modifying an existing PDF. So in those cases subclassing PDFPage looks promising. Jonathan _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
