Re: PDF engine, that handles tables well
Re: PDF engine, that handles tables well
- Subject: Re: PDF engine, that handles tables well
- From: Simon McLean <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:06:47 +0000
another one for the mix:
http://pd4ml.com/
we use it for lots of single page stuff.
Simon
On 17 Dec 2007, at 17:32, Guido Neitzer wrote:
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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