> FOP is a standard but almost > not used, so design tools are scarce,
Some commercial products use FOP for rendering, such as Altova Stylevision and Stylus Studio (both of which you can get free trials of). I believe FOP is used quote a lot when it fits the scenario. The FOP site itself does what the original poster asked - renders a PDF version of each of its HTML pages. > you should probably give visual > tools in conjunction with reporting engines a shot Altova Stylevision is a visual tool/reporting engine based on XML with FOP integration. Not sure about Stylus, but Stylevision I believe allows you to import an HTML file and then generate the PDF from the result. It will also generate the XSLT for you to plug into your favourite XML library. FOP is undergoing a long and complete rewrite to support complex features which were hard to do in the previous version, but the current release is fairly stable and functional for the more basic layout tasks. If you are using complex layouts, you will probably get frustrated. (whatever technology you use!) Alan B. ----- Original Message ----- From: Werner Punz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 6:56 am Subject: Re: AW: Re: What PDF library or framework to create PDF on the fly-->iText? > Fop is just another approach of going from a meta description to a > result with different rendering targets. FOP is a standard but almost > not used, so design tools are scarce, you should probably give visual > tools in conjunction with reporting engines a shot: > Following ones come to my mind > Jasper Reports with one of the Design tools (which there are a > handful)Eclipse Birt which is free and looks also very good. > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So you think FOP is not the best approach and idea? > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: news [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Werner Punz > > Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Dezember 2005 14:21 > > An: users@myfaces.apache.org > > Betreff: Re: What PDF library or framework to create PDF on the > > fly-->iText? > > > > > > There is no direct way to do that, you only can simulate the > form layout > > some mentioned cocoon, but that one is only usable that way if > you use > > cocoon as html frontend as well, but that seems to be out of the > > question, I can recommend to think about simulating your form in PDF > > with the given data, > > BIRT seems to be quite good for this area since it allows various > > datasources and a viusal design. > > Handcoding that stuff via iText is not recommendable, been there > done> that too much code. > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>I already asked some days ago, now I had time to look a bit at > iText and > >>after that I'm not really smarter than before. > >> > >>I'm not sure if this library will help me. > >>I want to do the following: > >>The Myfaces JSF Page is normally shown to the user (some results > from a > >>report or some text from the database) > >>Now I want to have a button, which generates a PDF File out of > this screen. > >>So the PDF Creating must be done on the fly (depending on what > the user > >>sees) > >> > >>How can I do that? > >>Any examples? > >> > >>Thx, Regards > >>Andy > >> > >>______________________________________________________________________ > >>This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > >>intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom > they are > >>addressed. If you have received this email in error please > notify your > >>system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email > message has > >>been swept for the presence of computer viruses. > >>______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________> > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please > notify> your system manager. > > > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept > > for the presence of computer viruses. > > > ______________________________________________________________________> > >
