RE: [OT] PDF generation (was: Reporting + Struts)

2004-03-11 Thread Wendy Smoak
Niall Pemberton wrote http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ BTW, I wasn't doing it in a web environment and the pdf generation is slow, can take up to 30 seconds for a large report. I'm using iText for my Struts app, and it's not that slow for me... 120 pages in ~7 seconds. I suppose it depends on

Re: [OT] PDF generation (was: Reporting + Struts)

2004-03-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
] PDF generation (was: Reporting + Struts) Niall Pemberton wrote http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ BTW, I wasn't doing it in a web environment and the pdf generation is slow, can take up to 30 seconds for a large report. I'm using iText for my Struts app, and it's not that slow for me... 120

RE: [OT] PDF generation (was: Reporting + Struts)

2004-03-11 Thread Hubert Rabago
--- Wendy Smoak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hubert Rabago wrote: My current users are Excel lovers, so I generate formatted Excel docs (through POI) that they can edit or print directly. Do you have a small example? I'm currently sending a CSV from my Struts app, but there is a huge demand

Re: [OT] PDF generation (was: Reporting + Struts)

2004-03-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
Wendy's post about this suggests that she isn't having a problem with it (120 pages in 7 seconds). To get a sexy looking grid on the page, with nice headers (multi-line, cell spaning stuff) we created our own TableRenderer based on iText's PdfPTableEvent - it handles drawing the headers and nice