On Nov 2, 2007, at 00:24, Fred Janon wrote:
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I have a database with task objects with their name, start/end
dates, completion, etc. I want to compose (to print it via pdf,
PCL) a large document (10+ pages) containing a Gantt chart composed
of a table with rows of text and numbers, bars (graphics), columns
with dates, a legend and some notes, in a very similar way as
Microsoft Project. FOP would help me formatting the document
(margin, centering...) and with the pagination after I compose an
XML document that describes the content of the document but not the
pagination? FOP could generate the pdf document for example with 10
pages and the page number with my content segmented on each page?
Would I have to create an extension to draw the graphics for the
task bars?
Sorry about all these basic questions, but I have the feeling that
FOP can save us a lot of time in our project but it's always
difficult to figure out the use and limits of a technology without
spending quite some time on it and I don't have much of that.
What you could also do, instead of going the extension path
completely, is to try and translate the Gantt-chart into a native XSL-
FO table. First column contains the task name, the others represent
the plot-range. Either make it a table with a very high-number of
columns (native FO), or only two: one for the task-name, the second
to contain the Gantt-bar for each task (the Gantt-bar could still be
generated by an fo:instream-foreign-object).
Just my 2 cents
Cheers
Andreas
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