[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I am a little bit out of date here, but what would Forrest produce in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
That would work, and is actually quite a nice idea. Simple too, I like that.
Ross
