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Topic: Re: A servlet generating PDF on the fly
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 31945
From: pondi
Date: 12/21/2001 07:18 PM
On 12/21/2001 2:47:01 PM, LeonardR wrote:
>At 02:37 AM 12/21/2001 +1100,
>p-pdf-developer Listmanager
>wrote:
>> I'm making a little study on existing products and sources able to
>> generate PDF file "on the fly" on a web server. Data sources will be JDBC
>> or else.
>
>First thing you should do is
>better evaluate your specific
>needs -
>in terms of the PDF content,
>so that you can properly
>determine whether a
>given product really meets
>your needs. Once you know
>that, THEN you can
>begin to look at each product
>for what it does (and does
>not) offer you!
>
>For example, do you simply
>need to "fill in fields"? Or
>do you
>have the need to produce a
>complete report from the
>scratch? If the
>latter, how complex is the
>report? Text only? A few
>graphics? Do you
>need tables?
>
>Do you already have a "report
>generator" to some other
>format? HTML? XML? Word?
>Would a converter from one
>format to another be
>a better solution?
>
>Also, will these be screen
>only or also printable
>reports? Do you
>have any need for prepress
>features such as crop, bleed
>or spot colors?
>
>What about security and/or DRM
>needs?
>
>
>Leonard
OK, thanx for help.
Actually I only want text in tables, like
element1 21 A23AZ blablabli
element2 54 DS654 popupo
...
No colors or graphs or needed, i think this kind of page can use fields. I want to build a Java package and use it in a few Websphere application and am looking for a generic tool from which i could catch a component or source code...
