Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
- Subject: Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
- From: James Cicenia <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:38:52 -0600
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> On Jan 16, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Timothy Worman <email@hidden> wrote:
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> https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/webobjects-podcasts/id270165303
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> "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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:29 PM, Ray Kiddy <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a use case for the ERPDFWrapper classes? I am not
>>> seeing, for example, package-level javadoc that might explain this.
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>> - 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....
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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....
>>>
>>> Or maybe ERPDFWrapper is more amazing than I can see. Is it? For what?
>>>
>>> thanx - ray
>>>
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