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> On Jan 16, 2015, at 4:28 PM, Timothy Worman <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/webobjects-podcasts/id270165303 > > "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]
