[news.eclipse.birt] Re: birt report as print preview on desktop app

[John Ward <johnw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

andreas,

Yeah, that about sums it up, at least as far as I know. Keep in mind, 
when you do the preview using the API, you still have the support for 
pagination, and you can do this in such a way that you aren't re-running 
the same process over again. When you Run your report, keep the Report 
Document instance handy. I personally would rather use PDF as the 
preview format, but any format that there is an emitter for is possible. 
If you keep the Report document handy after running it once, you can do 
things like progressive rendering and pagination for your actual print 
instance.

John

andreas wrote:
> thank you for your replies.
>
> to resume; as i see i've two options to show the reports as print 
> preview in my swing application. Firstly i could use osgi to use the 
> birt viewer plugin. So i'll could show the report using swt and the 
> default os browser like eclipse does.
> Secondly i don't use osgi and the birt viewer plugin. Then i have to 
> emulate and adapt the functionality of birts viewer plugin by my self. 
> (doing a run task, doing a rendering task, process and show the rendered 
> report)
>
> I suppose that the rendering gives me a concrete fomate e.g. html and i 
> have to care for its presentation. right?
>
> i hope i have summarized my options correctly, if not please correct me 
> and help me out.
>
> thanks again. andreas