Re: PDF engine, that handles tables well
Re: PDF engine, that handles tables well
- Subject: Re: PDF engine, that handles tables well
- From: Guido Neitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:32:22 -0700
On 17.12.2007, at 10:13, Don Lindsay wrote:
I use JPDF and it works well.
I looked at this, but don't want to spent the money at the moment, as
the project I'm working on is private and nobody knows whether it will
bring some money one day ...
Nevertheless I need really high quality PDF output and I'm still not
sure how easy it is to achieve this with the mentioned solutions -
they seem to be okay for some stuff but I don't know how they will fit
in my requirements.
The first thing I thought about, because of the requirement for high
quality output, was pdflatex - I'd create a component with the LaTeX
document, let it render itself, write the content string to disk and
pass it to pdflatex.
This solution would be slower than most PDF libraries, but I know what
I get and how to get it. The output fits my requirements and there are
virtually no limitations as long as I can provide the correct LaTeX
code. I will certainly look at the other free solutions as the
integration of LaTeX is a bit tricky, but this is still the option
that looks best for what I want / need.
PDFKit looks promising as it seems to be able to handle longer tables
quite well, but the layout abilities seem to be more "pixel-
orientated" than "input-orientated". Don't get me wrong, it seems, as
it is fairly simple to use from a WO application and quite powerful
but I'm not sure how I could handle my layout needs as I don't want to
be pixel-driven, but rather only provide a structured input and get a
perfectly styled output with pre-defined and more or less fixed
templates (and that's what I get from TeX/LaTeX) .
Thank you all for your input.
cug
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