On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Mark Morris wrote:
Other than price and "open-source-ness", are there disadvantages to ReportMill versus other tools? I've been pretty happy with it, so much so that I haven't been paying much attention to alternatives lately.
I have not used other tools. I have generated pdf using the iText library but that feels like writing an app in assembly language. You have to create your paragraphs, tables, cells, set fonts, etc. all programatically. ReportMill is really nice and higher level in comparison as you may know already. :-)
I don't think we have a problem with ReportMill being closed. The problem is that the server deployment license costs money and if you want to add servers you have to do the multiplication and it can add up. :-) And also if you want to upgrade. And it seems like RM comes up with new versions every so often. We started with version 4 (I think) and I think we're now using version 7. And last I checked the latest version is 11. So we're way behind. And the problem is that I can't run the ReportMill template editing app on Snow Leopard. I would love to upgrade but that means upgrading the servers also and paying.
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