Goodbye StyleReport, goodbye Inetsoft. I have the go-ahead to rewrite our PDF reports in iText.
:-)
Posted to Java by Simon Brunning at September 13, 2004 01:31 PMBet that's cheered you up.
So how long you got to do it then, or is this a blue-sky change (don't really need to but should someitme so might as well do it now) coz you bitched so much about it?
Posted by: Mark Matthews on September 13, 2004 04:43 PMA week or two. It's a "prove you can do it, and prove you can do it quicker with iText than with StyleReport" thing. No problem. ;-)
Posted by: Simon Brunning on September 13, 2004 04:47 PMWell, you got your revenge in a way - thanks to the power of blogs, the first result at google for StyleReport is one of your blog entries (try it: http://www.google.com/search?q=StyleReport ) with the immortal phrase "it's a piece of shit" appearing on the search results page. Nice one!
Posted by: Mark Russell on September 13, 2004 06:32 PM;-)
Posted by: Simon Brunning on September 14, 2004 08:45 AMWe had to write a PDF generator for an underwriting application.
Because it was based around templates, we used a combination of RTF2FO & FOP, squirting the data into the generated RTF2FO xml files using keyword replacement, and then finally output a PDF using FOP.
It appears to work relatively well... we did look at IText, but then discounted it... can't remember why though.
Posted by: ~lee/ on September 14, 2004 12:46 PMBloody lucky you!!!!! I hate hate hate stylereport! ;__;
Posted by: Davide Inglima - limaCAT on September 14, 2004 05:04 PMSaw this thread when doing my research on reporting tools. After using stylereport for about 2 months now, I think it's actually pretty nice and beats other tools hands down. Not sure why all the ranting here.
Posted by: Gail Monta on November 29, 2005 09:32 PM