hi, Thanks for all the replies. the need is really simple, just like an invoicing program, when the transaction is done, prints a receipt without user clicking anything, desktop app does this easily, not so sure about browser based app. will give all those a try, thanks.
angelo Otho wrote: > > The flying saucer is quite neat. https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/ > Under the hood it uses iText, but is a lot easier to setup and use than > itext directly or jasper reports. > > I use a freemarker html template styled with css for the layout and > databinding and xhtmlrenderer does the rest. You can just write the pdf to > disk for later reference or write to a ByteArrayOutputStream for a stream > response. > > If your layout demands are very simple DynamicJasper might also be worth a > look. You don't need xml templates for that but can generate a simple > report > from pure Java. > > 2009/5/20 Borut Bolčina <borut.bolc...@gmail.com> > >> One way of doing it is by generating PDF. See >> http://wiki.apache.org/tapestry/Tapestry5HowToCreateADynamicPDF which >> uses >> iText. >> >> You can use JasperReports. >> >> There is >> http://www.chenillekit.org/chenillekit-reports/howto_reports.htmlbut >> the documentation is non existing. I haven't used it, I just know the >> module is there. >> >> -Borut >> >> 2009/5/20 Angelo Chen <angelochen...@yahoo.com.hk> >> >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > This might not be related to tapestry 5, just a quick question: need to >> > provide a way to print a receipt in my t5 app, any idea how to achieve >> > this? >> > thanks. >> > >> > Angelo >> > >> > -- >> > View this message in context: >> > http://www.nabble.com/t5%3A-printing--tp23626244p23626244.html >> > Sent from the Tapestry - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org >> > >> > >> > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/t5%3A-printing--tp23626244p23649203.html Sent from the Tapestry - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
