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Generate PDF Files Dynamically with Java
Many applications demand dynamic generation of PDF documents. Such applications range from banks generating customer statements for e-mail delivery to readers buying specific book chapters and receiving them in PDF format. The list is endless. This article uses the iText Java library to generate PDF documents.
Portable database reporting using Java and XML
This article explains how to generate printable reports from a database using Java- and XML-related technologies like Xalan, Xerces, and FOP
Printing in Java, Part 1
This first installment in a five-part series on printing in Java will acquaint you with the Java printing API. It will start by dissecting the printing system in Java. Then moves on to explain some printing terminology, and finally dives right in to a detailed explanation of the Java printing API. It concludes also with a brief introduction on the printing framework.
Printing in Java, Part 2
This is the second of a five-part series article, that will show you how to print your first page and also teach you how to use the more advanced classes of the Java Print API.
Printing in Java, Part 3
Part 3 of our series on Java printing introduces you to the print framework, as Jean-Pierre Dubé explains its design and the functionality that it will offer. Working on top of the Java Print API, the framework will make printing pages much easier by providing such features as a print-preview facility, a portable page-setup dialog, and graphics primitives.
Printing in Java, Part 4
In Part 4 of "Printing in Java" series, you will begin coding the print framework. Dubé explains the foundation of the print framework and presents the code for the measurement system, the document class, the page class, and the print object class.
Reporting For The Web With DataVision
This is an article giving an introduction to the open-source reporting writing package DataVision, with a focus on integrating it into a web application for displaying reports in a browser. A sample webapp is included that demonstrates the concepts discussed in the article. DataVision is a Java-based reporting package written by Jim Menard. It has a Swing-based report writing tool, uses iText underneath to generate PDFs most commonly (among other output formats), and is about as simple to use as I could hope for.
Using XSL-FO to create printable documents
This article is the second part of "Portable database reporting using Java and XML". To demonstrate the advantage of using XSL-FO, the article includes an example implementation of a database reporting system that uses Java and XML code.
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