JasperReports use is kind of deprecated in OFBiz Jacques
> Damn I saw that there is some JasperReports in OFBiz but it is the enemy as I > am involved in JFreeReport. > > Cédric, > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : PRONZATO Cedric RD-BIZZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : mardi 13 février 2007 10:26 > À : dev@ofbiz.apache.org > Objet : RE: How to implement bulk printing of documents? > > Hi Jacopo, > > I would told you the following things: > > - use a reporting framework and not something based on fop and xsl which is > realy power consuming not itext directly. I would use Pentaho Reporting (aka JFreeReport http://reporting.pentaho.org/) on which the new version will be heavily multi-threaded and which support xml templates. PS: I am also involved in this project. > - I would not use the single document definition that is already in OFBiz. It > will restrict it so much later if you want to make groups, ... > > Cédric, > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Jacopo Cappellato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 13 février > 2007 09:20 À : dev@ofbiz.apache.org Objet : How to implement bulk printing of documents? > > What is the best/easiest way (if possible) to implement the bulk printing of > a set of PDF reports that share the same template (aka screen widget definition)? > For example, generate a big PDF with all the purchase orders in the created > approved status; the pdf can then be printed and so that the purchase orders are sent by mail to the suppliers. > > Ideally I'd like to reuse the existing screen definition that defines the > single document and just iterate over it and put the output into a single PDF file. > > Any hints/ideas on how to implement this? > > Another interesting option would be that of bulk sending by email a set of > documents (for example one email per supplier with the attached purchase order), but this is not very important for me at the moment, just one more wish in my list. > > Jacopo > >
