I'm using fop too. The only thing I'm missing so far is wrapping text around pictures. But it's scaling images very nicely and creates good pdfs. For invoking java I'm using nsjava as I've some other tasks for it, too. It slows down the startup process of aolserver, but once it's up it is pretty snappy because it isn't forking and starting up a new JVM every time.
wiwo On Tuesday 09 December 2003 16:25, Oli Bird wrote: > > I'm using the free python library reportlab ( > http://www.reportlab.org/ ) which gives you a high flexibility in the > layout, but you need to exec a process from withing aolserver and deal > with the database access somehow. I used pythons capabilities to > connect to the db, but it's quirky and would be much nicer to have a > way to use openacs' database access procs for generating reports. > While reportlab is all well and good, I've always had decent results using > apache's fop transformation engines.. > > Once again, need to be called as external processes, butyou can generate > your xml online, apply some xsl, and then fop transform it to get what you > want with remarkably little difficulty. > > It's also got a lot more control than html -> pdf stuff. > > Oli Bird > > > -- > AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ > > To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the > email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- Digital Concepts Ideen-Konzepte-Lösungen [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.digital-concepts.com Mobil: +43 699 / 20 88 13 51 Büro: +43 732 / 77 27 27 -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
