| Hi Mark, Pascal, and List,
Not really, as I am sure, most of the advanced WebObjects developers have their own (Grouped)List and Edit(Detail) classes, e.g. Wonder/D2W/LISTedit, where these objects (could) have their own appendPDF functions. E.g. with our LISTedit framework, this is coded in (with very few lines), so for the end-developer, there is no coding at all. The user just presses on a "Print" Button, et voila... 10x faster rendering than iText... and since these are your own WebObjects classes, of course, you can use Key Value Coding, etc....
We would suggest showing this at WOWDC if people like, in addition to creating more complicated reports, that you generally cannot create with other PDF generators, such as Calendars, Schedules, Timesheets, and Complex Invoices.
With ReportMill, which we had used up to 2001, none of this was possible. We also found that coding for an hour achieved much more exact results than fiddling with a template editor for three hours.
And, of course, the PDFkit is free to the community, and will always be certified for the latest version of WebObjects and Java.
With Kind Regards,
Dennis Gaastra, Chief Technology Officer, WEBAPPZ Systems, Inc.
On 2009-11-03, at 8:33 AM, Mark Morris wrote: Following up my own post, I know that when I was using iText, and I'm assuming with PDFKit, you have more freedom to do whatever you want, wherever you want, than you do with a template-based tool, but, at least with iText, at a cost of significantly slower development time for the vast majority of the cases.
Regards, Mark On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Mark Morris wrote: Other than price and "open-source-ness", are there disadvantages to ReportMill versus other tools? I've been pretty happy with it, so much so that I haven't been paying much attention to alternatives lately.
Thanks, Mark On Nov 2, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Ricardo J. Parada wrote: I'm interested in PDFKit or anything that could help us phase out ReportMill. :-) On Nov 2, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Gaastra Dennis - WO Lists wrote: Bonjour Pacal,
How about I present some of our PDFkit advanced reports coding, our "Cloud Computing" engine bizDAV, and our newest large WO scheduling engine scheduleDS. It would be nice to revisit Montreal; the last time I was there was in 1977.
With Kind Regards,
Dennis Gaastra, Chief Technology Officer, WEBAPPZ Systems, Inc.
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