Le 08/06/2011 17:37, Esteban Lorenzano a écrit :
Hi,
Hi,
So... my question:
what do you use to generate reports to clients?
if pdf generation... which strategy?
In my job we use OpenOffice as a service to perform document format
conversion. We have defined a document template (an ODT document) with
which an intermediate document is built thanks to the OpenOffice API
then the intermediate document is sent to the OpenOffice service to
perform the format conversion.
The downside of this solution is that the OpenOffice API is either in
Java or in C++.
Here some refs:
- the OpenOffice API: http://api.openoffice.org/
- a Java library that wraps the OpenOffice API to do format conversion:
http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter
- a toolkit to build OpenDocument documents (in Java):
http://simple.odftoolkit.org/
I think there is a lot of work to realize a high-level (and more simple)
API in Smalltalk/Pharo to build OpenDocument documents and to
communicate to an OpenOffice service with UNO.
Mig
