Re: PDF writer

2016-10-21 Thread Matthew Roth
that allows a crawl to be defined entirely through a GUI, > but question whether it really is much better than a FOSS architecture. > > -Original Message- > From: Alexandre Rafalovitch [mailto:arafa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 10:35 AM > To: solr-user <

RE: PDF writer

2016-10-21 Thread Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C]
lexandre Rafalovitch [mailto:arafa...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 10:35 AM To: solr-user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Subject: Re: PDF writer On 21 October 2016 at 09:58, Matthew Roth <matthew.g.r...@yale.edu> wrote: > . I could always process the upstream relational data to

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-21 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
On 21 October 2016 at 09:58, Matthew Roth wrote: > . I could always process the upstream relational data to > produce my PDF reports. I think this is the best option. This allows you to mangle/de-normalize your data stored in Solr to be the best fit for search. Regards,

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-21 Thread Matthew Roth
Hi Shawn, Thanks for the thoughtful response on middleware and the solr philosophy. You are correct and I intend to handle this outside of Solr. This inquiry was me doing some forethought on a distant project. When I see an XSLTResponseWriter the jump-to-conclusions part of my brain jumps to PDF.

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-19 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/17/2016 8:01 AM, Matthew Roth wrote: > Is there a documented or preferred path to have a PDF response writer? > I am using solr 5.3.x for an internal project. I have an XSL-FO > transformation that I am able to return via the XSLT response writer. > Is there a documented way to produce a PDF

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread John Bickerstaff
> -Original message- > > From:John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> > > Sent: Monday 17th October 2016 22:05 > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: PDF writer > > > > It's not fun to build a .pdf this way, but this may help... > >

RE: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread Markus Jelsma
g > Subject: Re: PDF writer > > It's not fun to build a .pdf this way, but this may help... > > http://itextpdf.com/ > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Matthew Roth <matthew.g.r...@yale.edu> > wrote: > > > Thanks Erick. That is as anticipated. Scourin

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread John Bickerstaff
It's not fun to build a .pdf this way, but this may help... http://itextpdf.com/ On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Matthew Roth wrote: > Thanks Erick. That is as anticipated. Scouring my other resources didn't > indicate the existence of a PDF writer. I thought I'd try

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread Matthew Roth
Thanks Erick. That is as anticipated. Scouring my other resources didn't indicate the existence of a PDF writer. I thought I'd try the group be embarking on a custom solution. Matt On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > There's no PDF writer that I

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread Erick Erickson
There's no PDF writer that I know of, and I doubt there's much enthusiasm for creating one as part of Solr. ResponseWriters are pluggable so this would certainly be possible. At root, in a response writer you just have a map of key/value pairs (it's a little more complicated than that, but not