What, specifically, do you mean? Saving things as PDF requires
that you have something in a view somewhere that you can get PDF data
from and save as a PDF document, or that you use the PDFKit, feed it
some formatting and text, then save it.
Saving as HTML is a little harder, as you'd need to build the tags
as strings for all your formatting and save it out.
Both these subjects are well documented and discussed in various
places (this list's archives included). However, you're putting the
cart before the horse. Actually *getting the report content* is the
hard part. "How" all comes down to "what". What do you want in your
report. Is the data it presents static (as in, a flat list of
"customer addresses") or is it user-defined (a rules-based report
where a user can say "all customers that purchased items within the
last six months and that live in the state of California")? The
former is easier, the latter probably isn't for newbies. ;-)
Whether it's user-defined or static, you need to build some sort
of query (that's where predicates come in), get the results, then
turn them into a pretty document of some kind. The simplest would be
to create an NSMutableAttributedString and append all your nicely-
formatted data, then hand it to an NSTextView (in memory - remember
to set its size!). You can print it directly, get PDF data from it,
or just save the whole thing outright as an RTF document.
There are likely better ways, but your question was very general,
so that's 'generally' how you could do it. :-)
On Jul 28, 2005, at 12:42 AM, Charles Haron wrote:
Hi All,
Now that I have a Core Data application, what is the best way to
generate reports for my data? I prefer to generate the reports in
PDF or HTML formats. Searches of the archive and http://
developer.apple.com/cocoa/, haven't been very successful.
I'm new to Cocoa and Core Data. Any suggestions, or tutorial links,
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Charles
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/dev%
40silentalcove.net
This email sent to email@hidden
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Cocoa-dev mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/email@hidden
