Dennis,
This is great news!
How soon can we get our hands on this free version? :-)
Regards, Kieran
On Dec 17, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Gaastra Dennis - WO Lists wrote:
Our PDFkit should beat any of the other ones mentioned in terms of
table generation by a factor of 10-100 times (our lab tests), since
it does not depend on any other code and is a 100% native
WebObjects framework. E.g., it can generate 400 pages filled with
tables in just 1-2 seconds on a 4 year old system.
With Kind Regards,
Dennis Gaastra, M.B.A.[sfu.ca], B.Sc.[ubc.ca]
Chief Technology Officer,
On 17-Dec-07, at 10:06 AM, Simon McLean wrote:
another one for the mix:
http://pd4ml.com/
we use it for lots of single page stuff.
Simon
On 17 Dec 2007, at 17:32, Guido Neitzer wrote:
On 17.12.2007, at 10:13, Don Lindsay wrote:
I use JPDF and it works well.
I looked at this, but don't want to spent the money at the
moment, as the project I'm working on is private and nobody knows
whether it will bring some money one day ...
Nevertheless I need really high quality PDF output and I'm still
not sure how easy it is to achieve this with the mentioned
solutions - they seem to be okay for some stuff but I don't know
how they will fit in my requirements.
The first thing I thought about, because of the requirement for
high quality output, was pdflatex - I'd create a component with
the LaTeX document, let it render itself, write the content
string to disk and pass it to pdflatex.
This solution would be slower than most PDF libraries, but I know
what I get and how to get it. The output fits my requirements and
there are virtually no limitations as long as I can provide the
correct LaTeX code. I will certainly look at the other free
solutions as the integration of LaTeX is a bit tricky, but this
is still the option that looks best for what I want / need.
PDFKit looks promising as it seems to be able to handle longer
tables quite well, but the layout abilities seem to be more
"pixel-orientated" than "input-orientated". Don't get me wrong,
it seems, as it is fairly simple to use from a WO application and
quite powerful but I'm not sure how I could handle my layout
needs as I don't want to be pixel-driven, but rather only provide
a structured input and get a perfectly styled output with pre-
defined and more or less fixed templates (and that's what I get
from TeX/LaTeX) .
Thank you all for your input.
cug
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