>> Know I'm involved in a project that will need to automatically, >> periodically, send pdf documents as e-mail attaches to system >> administrators. Why not Forrest for the doc generation ? >> >> Can I easilly embedd forrest inside shell scripts ? Just >gessing: 1) I >> would generate XML automatically; 2) I would generate png images >> automatically; 3) then I would invoque forrest; 4) then I >would remove >> the pdf file from the 'site' sub-dir and send it by e-mail....
>I'm glad you say "sie is not a problem". Forrest is big and >clunky if all you wan tto do is send out the odd mail or two >of specific files. > >One of the big limitations of Forrest is that it is difficult >to generate single files. So if you want a single PDF to be >updated, you would have to build the whole site. This is not a >problem if your site is small, but if it is large it can be an >issue. Forrest is not really designed for one off page generation. > >Having said that, there are mechnisms for limiting what pages >are generated. I am a little bit out of date here, but what would Forrest produce in the webapp mode and you request only the two pdf files? Therefore you would - start tomcat/jetty with Forrest webapp - <ant:get> the pdf's from localhost:8080/... - stop tomcat/jetty - <ant:email> the files Jan
