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"ERPDF in 60 seconds” Podcast #78 Tim Worman UCLA GSE&IS > On Jan 16, 2015, at 1:19 PM, James Cicenia <[email protected]> wrote: > > I never could find a working video. > > > > >> On Jan 16, 2015, at 2:29 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/james%40jimijon.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/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]
