Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
- Subject: Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
- From: Timothy Worman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:28:11 -0800
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/webobjects-podcasts/id270165303
"ERPDF in 60 seconds”
Podcast #78
Tim Worman
UCLA GSE&IS
> On Jan 16, 2015, at 1:19 PM, James Cicenia <email@hidden> wrote:
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> I never could find a working video.
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>> On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Ray Kiddy <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Does anyone have a use case for the ERPDFWrapper classes? I am not
>> seeing, for example, package-level javadoc that might explain this.
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>> The reason I ask is that I recently had to generate PDF invoices for an
>> order system and the conversation in my head followed a very common
>> pattern:
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>> - How do I do this in Wonder? Oh, here is a way. And here's a way, and
>> another and another and...
>> - Which one is newer? Which one is working? Which one depends on what?
>> - What are they using? Another (Apache or Google or ...) technology....
>> - I can just use that directly and ... (two hours later, more if I
>> need to make coffee) ... it works.
>> - Wow! I could still be trying to figure what those Wonder classes do
>> and why they don't work, not that it is not great to hear how Chuck
>> and Ramsey are doing these days, but....
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>> So, I used the org.apache.pdfbox classes directly from my app and the
>> client was happy. The pretty picture is in the right place, multiple
>> page invoices, yep. The hardest part was writing helper classes which
>> translated "goTo" and "moveTo" commands to the PDFBox page geometry,
>> but once those were written, it just fell together.
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>> It kind of looks as though if I have a XML doc to write out to PDF and
>> I am not trying to do much with the layout or to change the appearance,
>> I can use ERPDFWrapper. But if I do not care about configuring the
>> appearance, why would I be using PDFs?
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>> I probably could put my code in Wonder, but it does not depend on
>> anything else, doesn't include a new technology and would not require
>> the addition of 2 or 3 jars to the ERExtensions project so that would
>> just be weird....
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>> Or maybe ERPDFWrapper is more amazing than I can see. Is it? For what?
>>
>> thanx - ray
>>
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