Esteban wrote:
>- Libharu (
http://www.squeaksource.com/HPDF.html) to export to PDF, with a
>Magritte extension to produce the reports.
>
>the cool thing is that even if I developed many frameworks to help me in
>the task, I tool 15 days to have first version working and 1 month to
>finish it :)
Thats why I created such "infrastructure" projects like HPDF - it makes
life more easier for any new projects afterwards. Glad that it was usefull.
Meanwhile HPDF is outdated (still on FFI, a port to NativeBoost would now be state of the art)
and we also have Artefact for PDF generation as a "Pharo only" solution.
One question: did you "hard code" the PDF layouts for the documents in the "lawsuitTracker"
or what did you use to (quickly) define the report layouts?
I would like to see some kind of general reporting engine in the future.
Either a pharo based one or by using templates from existing engines (for instance JasperReports
has a nice visual ui designer and layout templates are stored in XML files)
With a future UIBuilder for PharoUI's, Seaside for Web-UI's and a (Pharo based)
ReportingEngine Pharo could be an attractive solution to build business software...
Thx
T.
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