Yes, I have used it. ERPDFWrapper is easy and simple. It will wrap any well formed xhtml and turn it into a PDF. There is a great podcast that demonstrates a basic example in ~60 seconds. There are options for more complex use cases.
It has been some time since I reviewed documentation, but I think I found what I needed when I did. I also have additions to my wonder branch that will password protect the generated PDF - if anyone around is interested. Tim Worman UCLA GSE&IS > On Jan 16, 2015, at 12:29 PM, Ray Kiddy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Does anyone have a use case for the ERPDFWrapper classes? I am not > seeing, for example, package-level javadoc that might explain this. > > The reason I ask is that I recently had to generate PDF invoices for an > order system and the conversation in my head followed a very common > pattern: > > - How do I do this in Wonder? Oh, here is a way. And here's a way, and > another and another and... > - Which one is newer? Which one is working? Which one depends on what? > - What are they using? Another (Apache or Google or ...) technology.... > - I can just use that directly and ... (two hours later, more if I > need to make coffee) ... it works. > - Wow! I could still be trying to figure what those Wonder classes do > and why they don't work, not that it is not great to hear how Chuck > and Ramsey are doing these days, but.... > > So, I used the org.apache.pdfbox classes directly from my app and the > client was happy. The pretty picture is in the right place, multiple > page invoices, yep. The hardest part was writing helper classes which > translated "goTo" and "moveTo" commands to the PDFBox page geometry, > but once those were written, it just fell together. > > It kind of looks as though if I have a XML doc to write out to PDF and > I am not trying to do much with the layout or to change the appearance, > I can use ERPDFWrapper. But if I do not care about configuring the > appearance, why would I be using PDFs? > > I probably could put my code in Wonder, but it does not depend on > anything else, doesn't include a new technology and would not require > the addition of 2 or 3 jars to the ERExtensions project so that would > just be weird.... > > Or maybe ERPDFWrapper is more amazing than I can see. Is it? For what? > > thanx - ray > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/lists%40thetimmy.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
