Sorry, I mean to capabilities of Report4PDF. 2012/5/2 Gastón Dall' Oglio <[email protected]>
> Hi. > > Following the links in Bob blog, I get a pdf document showing capabilities > of PDF4Smalltalk: > > http://www.stic.st/conferences/stic12/stic12-abstracts/pdf4smalltalk-based-report-framework/ > > Regards. > > 2012/5/2 Christian Haider <[email protected]> > >> > Von: [email protected] >> [mailto:pharo-project- >> > [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Yanni Chiu >> > >> > On 02/05/12 10:53 AM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: >> > > >> > > Stephan Eggermont wrote >> > >> >> > >> Don't you think it would be much less work to port Christian >> Haider's >> > >> work to Pharo? >> > > >> > > I was thinking the same thing. The usual Smalltalk duplication of >> > > effort seems to have been taken to new heights with PDF libs ;-) >> > >> > I've loaded Artefact, browsed the code, tried the demos. >> > >> > I've not seen the code for PDF4Smalltalk, because I can't figure out >> how to >> > browse it without VW. >> >> Unfortunately, you can't :-( >> >> > However, looking at the examples at: >> > https://gitorious.org/pdf4smalltalk/pages/Examples >> > I get the (possibly mistaken) impression that the two frameworks do >> slightly >> > different things, but the final result is a PDF in both cases. >> > >> > Looking at the PDFDemos of Artefact, it's clear how text and tables >> can be >> > written. However, looking at the PDF4Smalltalk examples, it looks like >> you >> > have to position the text and tables in your own code. Of course, I >> may be >> > completely wrong about PDF4Smalltalk, since I've not seen the full >> code >> > base. >> >> I have not looked at Artefact, but from what I read, these are different >> things, I guess. >> PDF4Smalltalk is a system library providing full access to PDF. >> PDF objects are regular Smalltalk objects which you can read from PDF >> files or create them with code and write them as PDF. The PDF basics are >> quite complete and robust (I use it for a few years in production now), >> but there are also lots of features desired :-) (TrueType fonts and >> bitmap images to name a few). >> >> It deals purely with PDF and does not add any higher concepts like >> tables and other layouting facilities - in fact not even proper classes >> for graphics or text... (high on my list when I find time). It is like >> painting on a canvas: you are completely responsible for the placement >> of everything. >> To deal with that, Bob Nemec implemented Report4PDF which uses Seaside >> like layouting for a report generator. It is done, works and is quite >> nice! See >> http://smalltalk-bob.blogspot.de/2012/01/pdf-report-and-law-of-demeter.h >> tml<http://smalltalk-bob.blogspot.de/2012/01/pdf-report-and-law-of-demeter.html> >> >> I'd love if someone would port this to Pharo! I would help with >> answering questions, but I have not time to do anything substantial in >> the moment... >> >> Cheers, >> Christian >> >> >
