Hello, My name is Estêvão (or just call me Steve) and my team and I develop software for the Federal Government of Brasil. Specifically, we have been working on a large web system for managing business documents with rich text. jOpenDocument has been proving very efficient for printing such documents, for which I tank you in behalf of my team.
Originally we have been providing only discrete portions of the documents to be edited as rich text through OO and Java Applets, to afterwards be combined through a OO template and jOD only for printing. However, now our client expects us to invert the functionality so he can edit upon the whole OO document, allowing him to not only consider formatting but also paging, while keeping the non- rich fields in control of the web page. In other words, he expects the system to provide not only the finished print document in the standard jOD way, but also an intermediary document as a new template, keeping the original template's fields while inserting their values at the same time. While we already have full control of generation and persistence of ODT documents in our web system, the question remains if it is viable for our team to use or modify jOD in order to preserve the data fields while at the same time inserting their values at the same position. Does jOD currently support such use? If not, do you see it as viable for one experient Java developer to successfully modify it to provide such funcionality in, say, a two-week time frame? Would you provide tips or references to facilitate such venture? Thank you for your time.
