RE: PDF engine, that handles tables well / ReportMill
RE: PDF engine, that handles tables well / ReportMill
- Subject: RE: PDF engine, that handles tables well / ReportMill
- From: "James C. Lee" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:19:23 -0800
- Importance: Normal
We've used ReportMill on various projects, and personally, I vote for
ReportMill. It's elegant and easy to use. And it just works.
Our time easily add up to be much more than $5K every week or two. So, if
the product saves a few weeks of work, it more than pays for ourselves. Oh,
and it's a supported product. :-)
^James
-----Original Message-----
From: webobjects-dev-bounces+jcl_applewodev=email@hidden
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m] On Behalf Of Kieran Kelleher
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:12 PM
To: Gaastra Dennis - WO Lists
Cc: WebObjects Dev
Subject: Re: PDF engine, that handles tables well
Dennis,
This is great news!
How soon can we get our hands on this free version? :-)
Regards, Kieran
On Dec 17, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Gaastra Dennis - WO Lists wrote:
Our PDFkit should beat any of the other ones mentioned in terms of table
generation by a factor of 10-100 times (our lab tests), since it does not
depend on any other code and is a 100% native WebObjects framework. E.g., it
can generate 400 pages filled with tables in just 1-2 seconds on a 4 year
old system.
With Kind Regards,
Dennis Gaastra, M.B.A.[sfu.ca], B.Sc.[ubc.ca]
Chief Technology Officer,
On 17-Dec-07, at 10:06 AM, Simon McLean wrote:
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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