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Re: [birt-report-engine-dev] PDF generating
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Paul Rogers wrote:
Stanley,
Does e.SS or F1-e.RE use iText?
I based my assumption on some remarks from iText users.
Could be that iText PDF output was integrated with Actuate software by a
third party.
-----Original Message-----
From: birt-report-engine-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Stanley Wang
Sent: Wed 6/8/2005 9:40 AM
To: For developers on the BIRT Report Engine project
Subject: RE: [birt-report-engine-dev] PDF generating
Actuate as of now does not use iText for PDF generation. One reason we
used FOP is that it is CSS-based, though it falls short in some areas in
term of functionalities. BIRT is an open-framework, so it should not be
too hard to write a PDF emitter based on iText. In fact, it would
benefit some users significantly.
I started browsing the Actuate site because of this question on my
mailing-list:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.lib.itext.general/16198
Seems like people are combining Actuate Software and iText. By clicking
some links and Googling I learned about the BIRT project. If I find the
time this summer, I'll take a look at it. While I am preparing the book,
I am writing a new parser that gets its style attributes from a CSS
file. It's still experimental code. Maybe I can tune the code to meet
the demands of PDF generation from BIRT. I don't have the time to start
with this the coming weeks, but I'll post something on the mailing-list
as soon as I have studied the possibilities.
best regards,
Bruno
