Apple

I've only tried FOP of the options you listed, but I have used iText (<http://www.lowagie.com/iText/>) for pdf generation and jfreechart (<http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/index.php>) for graphs, and have been pretty happy with both of them. I've also used ReportMill for pdf generation, which is very nice and has a layout application that makes designing a new pdf a very quick process, but it is a commercial product (minimum of $4995 for deployment, I believe).

On Mar 6, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Michael Herlihy wrote:

I've done a lot of image manipulation and pdf generation in other technologies but am new to web objects.

I need to create fairly simple pdf reports with graphs. The graphs could be images or native pdf vectors.

WebPDFReports seems ok but I would assume be very limited if it HTML to PDF I still need to create the graph objects.

I've seen old threads (2001)
> XSL:FO and FOP <http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html>
> JClass < http://www.sitraka.com/software/jclass/>
> Etymon PJ: <http://www.etymon.com/pj/>
> PDFLib: <http://www.pdflib.com/>

I've used PDFLib on Windows and Linux its very nice. It just seems to me Apple would already have something like PDFLib.

Thanks for your help.

Mike.

References:
	>PDF Generation Best Practices for Web Objects Newbie. (From: "Michael Herlihy" <email@hidden>)