Re: Printing Bills
Look at jasper for creating a pdf. Rafael Taboada wrote: Hi folks, i'm developing a project in struts, this project is about selling management. When the user selects some articles in order to sell them, there is a module with the client name and the articles list. I need to print that object: the bill. I'm in a hurry and I need ur experience in this kind of things. Do u know how to print bills? I mean, it has to have a format because we'll print in a piece of paper which it has a specific place for the client name and a specific place for the list of articles with its prices and quantity. So I don't know how to do this. Please could u share ur experience? Perhaps, is there any project about this?. Thanks in advance - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Bills
PDF is definitely the way to go While not strictly a struts thing -- the way to do it in my opinion is: text from the article --- XML (data from the article in XML format) --- create an XSL:FO file using some kind of a tool ( http://altova.com/ ) has demo software you can try for this -- XSL:FO + XML + FOP ( http://xml.apache.org/fop/ ) -- PDF !!! Lickity split, 2 weeks of work or so... Cheers, Alex. On 7/6/05, Rafael Taboada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, i'm developing a project in struts, this project is about selling management. When the user selects some articles in order to sell them, there is a module with the client name and the articles list. I need to print that object: the bill. I'm in a hurry and I need ur experience in this kind of things. Do u know how to print bills? I mean, it has to have a format because we'll print in a piece of paper which it has a specific place for the client name and a specific place for the list of articles with its prices and quantity. So I don't know how to do this. Please could u share ur experience? Perhaps, is there any project about this?. Thanks in advance -- Rafael Taboada Software Engineer Cell : +511-97753290 No creo en el destino pues no me gusta tener la idea de controlar mi vida
Re: Printing Bills
So aren't there any other way that PDF? -- Rafael Taboada Software Engineer Cell : +511-97753290 No creo en el destino pues no me gusta tener la idea de controlar mi vida
Re: Printing Bills
On 7/6/05, Aleksandar Matijaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PDF is definitely the way to go I would not say that pdf is definitely the way to go. CSS with print media type and points or cm or inches for units (not pixels) should work quite well. Michael. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Bills
There are a number of commercial products out there -- the products I outlined to you are open source, except the altova product... This is actualy much simpler then it seems Rafael -- have look at FOP... Regards, Alex. On 7/6/05, Rafael Taboada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So aren't there any other way that PDF? -- Rafael Taboada Software Engineer Cell : +511-97753290 No creo en el destino pues no me gusta tener la idea de controlar mi vida
Re: Printing Bills
Rafael Now I understand.. You can use Crystal Reports to pretty print using cascading style stylesheets for formatting but if you want hardcopy used by most of the agencies of the US I would output to PDF Saludos Cordiales! Martin- - Original Message - From: Rafael Taboada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:13 PM Subject: Re: Printing Bills So aren't there any other way that PDF? -- Rafael Taboada Software Engineer Cell : +511-97753290 No creo en el destino pues no me gusta tener la idea de controlar mi vida - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Bills
I would either use JasperReports to create a simple report definition, or use IText to create the PDF. When we tried to use FOP, we had to embed the fonts which resulted in HUGE PDFs. On 7/6/05, Martin Gainty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael Now I understand.. You can use Crystal Reports to pretty print using cascading style stylesheets for formatting but if you want hardcopy used by most of the agencies of the US I would output to PDF Saludos Cordiales! Martin- - Original Message - From: Rafael Taboada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:13 PM Subject: Re: Printing Bills So aren't there any other way that PDF? -- Rafael Taboada Software Engineer Cell : +511-97753290 No creo en el destino pues no me gusta tener la idea de controlar mi vida - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing Bills
Interesting, we didn't have that problem at all. I just wish that there was a better way of including graphic objects that were created -on-the-fly... Regards, Alex. On 7/6/05, Nick Heudecker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would either use JasperReports to create a simple report definition, or use IText to create the PDF. When we tried to use FOP, we had to embed the fonts which resulted in HUGE PDFs. On 7/6/05, Martin Gainty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael Now I understand.. You can use Crystal Reports to pretty print using cascading style stylesheets for formatting but if you want hardcopy used by most of the agencies of the US I would output to PDF Saludos Cordiales! Martin- - Original Message - From: Rafael Taboada [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts List user@struts.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:13 PM Subject: Re: Printing Bills So aren't there any other way that PDF? -- Rafael Taboada Software Engineer Cell : +511-97753290 No creo en el destino pues no me gusta tener la idea de controlar mi vida - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
