Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
- Subject: Re: use case for ERPDFWrapper?
- From: Louis Demers <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 12:03:14 -0500
I've put up my copy at http://demers.name:81/PDFIn60Seconds.mov
> On Jan 16, 2015, at 22:38, James Cicenia <email@hidden> wrote:
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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”
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>> Podcast #78
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>> Tim Worman
>> UCLA GSE&IS
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>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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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