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On 2/15/2010 12:23 AM, Fred Janon wrote: > That's what I thought initially, but then I tried to use the iReport > editor and it cannot handle more than real basic editing. > > I am not sure I understand what you mean by > >> However if you have lots of Word documents and would need to >> convert them by hand something like a Word VBA macro is probably the >> easiest/fastest solution >> > Convert to what? iReport uses a proprietary format based on XML if I > recall correctly. How would I convert a word document into an iReport > template format? > > I looked also at using COM/OLE from Java, but the documentation for > driving Word and Excel with COM is scarce, big risks involved. > > Thanks > > Fred > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 16:11, Markus Meyer<me...@mesw.de> wrote: > >> Fred, >> >> JasperReports (with its iReport editor) sounds perfect for that task. >> Note that JasperReports uses iText internally, but creates the PDFs from >> scratch. However if you have lots of Word documents and would need to >> convert them by hand something like a Word VBA macro is probably the >> easiest/fastest solution. There are ways to automate Word from Java >> using COM automation, but I'm not sure this makes sense for your project. >> >> >> Markus >> >> Am 15.02.2010 03:48, schrieb Fred Janon: >> >>> I need to generate different multi-page documents from some templates. >>> I need to replace or insert some text and charts at specific locations >>> in the template and then generate the final document. At the moment >>> the templates are Microsoft Word documents. We use Windows as our OS >>> and Java as the development technology. I looked at iReports but >>> because the editor has limited capabilities, I cannot convert the Word >>> templates into iReport documents. >>> >>> I looked at using COM/OLE or other Microsoft technologies but I don't >>> have enough knowledge of them to embark on that journey, specially >>> calling them from Java. We want to use Java to be able to create a >>> desktop app and a web app as well. >>> >>> I used iText before to generate a chart in PDF format that needs to be >>> in some of the reports. It worked beautifully. I own the first edition >>> of the iText book and it clearly states that iText is not designed for >>> editing pdf documents. I'd like to know if there is a way to create >>> the pdf templates and use iText to replace some of the text and charts >>> (images) to produce the real documents. I thought about using form >>> fields, but it probably would not work for replacing images (charts). >>> >>> Any suggestion would be appreciated. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Fred >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, >>> Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. 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Get Solaris 10 NOW >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> iText-questions mailing list >> iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> >> Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php >> Check the site with examples before you ask questions: >> http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ >> You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, > Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW > http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
