Esteban wrote: >- Libharu (http://www.squeaksource.com/HPDF.html) to export to PDF, with a >Magritte extension to produce the reports. > >the cool thing is that even if I developed many frameworks to help me in >the task, I tool 15 days to have first version working and 1 month to >finish it :)
Thats why I created such "infrastructure" projects like HPDF - it makes life more easier for any new projects afterwards. Glad that it was usefull. Meanwhile HPDF is outdated (still on FFI, a port to NativeBoost would now be state of the art) and we also have Artefact for PDF generation as a "Pharo only" solution. One question: did you "hard code" the PDF layouts for the documents in the "lawsuitTracker" or what did you use to (quickly) define the report layouts? I would like to see some kind of general reporting engine in the future. Either a pharo based one or by using templates from existing engines (for instance JasperReports has a nice visual ui designer and layout templates are stored in XML files) With a future UIBuilder for PharoUI's, Seaside for Web-UI's and a (Pharo based) ReportingEngine Pharo could be an attractive solution to build business software... Thx T.
