[seam-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (SEAMREPORTS-10) Dynamic reporting from customer template
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alberto Gori commented on SEAMREPORTS-10:
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An interesting thing of docx4j, except from supporting docx format, is that it can export
to PDF without requiring an installation of Microsoft Office. Looking at documentation it
seems to do the job throught FOP.
So, what about doing the same for ODF? This project
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/office2fo/) is able to transform ODF files to FO format
(thanks to XSLT). At this point Seam Reports could transform FO to PDF (thourght FOP or
some other commercial library).
I don't know if the whole process is reliable...and if it works well for every ODF
file.
Dynamic reporting from customer template
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Key: SEAMREPORTS-10
URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SEAMREPORTS-10
Project: Seam Reports
Issue Type: Feature Request
Reporter: alberto Gori
Labels: document, openoffice, reporting, template
Would be nice to see a solution for dynamic reporting using customer templates. Many
times customers give us a template (OpenOffice or Word document), and we are supposed to
produce reports based on them, maybe adding some other images, signature etc.
So I suggest a Seam Report API able to read a customer template (odt etc), manipulate
this document (set fields, adding table rows, adding images, etc) and produce PDF. For
example an API that hides all the complexity of UNO (http://udk.openoffice.org/) or some
other tool for document manipulation.
The key part is existent document manipulation.
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