That is a possible approach, thanks Jaco. I've also thought of using iText's pdfcopy function to merge the PDF created by Jasper with the attachment PDF, before emailing it, but then of course I still have the problem of sending this to the printer. You idea of converting to an image might work out better.
H On 2010 Jul 28, at 13:20 , Jaco Davel wrote: > Hi Herman > > Regarding the PDF side of your problem, I ran into a similar situation with > Birt recently. I ended up using PDFRenderer > (https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/) to dynamically convert the PDF files > into images that can then be easily included in the report. > > Regards > Jaco > > On 27 Jul 2010, at 15:58 PM, Herman Lintvelt wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> We have a system that is using JasperReports to print or email reports and >> letters (or export them to PDF, Excel, etc). It has a nice queueing system >> that can handle the printing of thousands of letters using JasperReports. >> Now we got a request for taking an existing PDF or Word and print/email >> that (i.e. as "attachments" that goes with our normal jasperreport letters). >> >> Does anyone know of a way to take an existing PDF or Word doc and print that >> using JasperReports? Ideally we do not want to introduce some other printing >> lib into our existing system... >> >> Regards, >> Herman >> >> Herman Lintvelt >> Polymorph Systems >> Office: +27 (23) 347 3881 >> Mobile: +27 (82) 339 6932 >> Web: www.polymorph.co.za >> Twitter: hermanlintvelt >> Skype: hermanlintveltza >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "CTJUG Tech" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en >> For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ >> For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CTJUG Tech" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en > For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ > For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Tech" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Tech?hl=en For Cape Town Java User Group home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za/ For jobs see http://jobs.gamatam.com/
