Hi Kevin,
unfortunately I have a lot of experience but you would need to explain
how the PDF generation should work in your opinion regarding content and
layouting
+) the iText approach is more or less building a PDF by code
+) Apache PDFBox allows filling out PDF forms and creation of simple
PDFs based on text data
+) Apache FOP is a way to go but FOP templates and XSLT is, well, difficult
+) my latest approach is converting HTML to PDF using "wkhtmltopdf"
(http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/)
The main question is the layout - is it static or user-defined?
Cheers,
Siegfried Goeschl
On 14.09.11 16:23, Kevin Meyer - KMZ wrote:
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
