Dear Rob and Jeff, Having a quick look at iText, its licensing is definitely not ASF compatible, so I could not add the results to the Isis domain.
One of the comments [1] in Rob's referenced TSS article suggests using Apache FOP [2]. I'll look into this first (perhaps I'll even be able to create the XSLT stylesheet in OpenOffice - that'll be a real winner! Regards, Kevin [1] http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?track=NL- 461&ad=847070&thread_id=62927&asrc=EM_NLN_14864357&uid=2 785788#349513 [2] http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/ On 14 Sep 2011 at 9:49, Robert Matthews wrote: > Kevin > > I had a look at iText (http://itextpdf.com/) in the past, but have not > used it. It struck me that it would be possible to use Isis to to > actually design the document, not just render it. Also, there is > posting on TSS ( > http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?track=NL-461&ad=847070&thread_id=62927&asrc=EM_NLN_14864357&uid=2785788 > > <http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?track=NL-461&ad=847070&thread_id=62927&asrc=EM_NLN_14864357&uid=2785788>) > > titled "From java.awt.print.Printable to PDF" that sounds interesting > (although I haven't read it yet). > > Regards > Rob > > On 13/09/11 18:25, Kevin Meyer - KMZ wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Please could I ask for some assistance in creating Isis domain classes > > to support creation of PDF files? > > > > Does anyone have any experience with using java to create PDF files? > > > > I am guessing that some sort of template would be required (to specify > > what goes where), and a way of telling the PDF domain classes which > > properties should be used. > > > > Since Isis does not support documents as a value type yet (see ISIS- > > 115 [1]), I will probably use the email domain classes to send the result > > to a recipient, assuming that I can add attachment support (if it isn't > > already there). > > > > Regards, > > Kevin > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-115
