Re: Creating PDF reports

[Maxthon Chan]

An alternative idea: stick to original NeXTSTEP method?

As what I know, NeXTSTEP use Display PostScript to manifest GUI, and is 
"essentially PDF". So is it possible to use that old method to output PDF, that 
is, get the portion out from the DPS frame?

在 2013-2-27，下午7:35，Robert Slover <address@hidden> 写道：

> If you have Xvfb available, that can serve as a dummy X server for such 
> purposes. (vfb==virtual frame buffer). Unfortunately, it still requires a 
> bunch of X infrastructure such as font libraries, X shared libs, etc.
> 
> On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:02, Steven LeMaire <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> I tried adding the [NSApplication sharedApplication] but when I run the 
>> program with that in the code, it attempts to connect to a X server (which 
>> there is none in this case) and ends.
>> 
>> For the NEEDS_GUI=YES, do I just plug that anywhere in the makefile ?
>> 
>> thsnks !
>> 
>> 
>> On 2013-02-27, at 3:10 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 27.02.2013 um 05:07 schrieb Germán "A. Arias" <address@hidden>:
>>> 
>>>> El mar, 26-02-2013 a las 22:04 -0500, Steven LeMaire escribió:
>>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm looking at writing a simple program that will run scheduled on a 
>>>>> server, which will query a database and using the results, generate a PDF 
>>>>> report to be emailed to some users. I'm not too sure how I should go 
>>>>> about doing this, my first attempt at this was to write a tool that 
>>>>> creates an NSTextView, and simply inserts the text into it. It would then 
>>>>> use the NSPrintOperation PDFOperationWithTextView method to create an 
>>>>> NSMutableData object, which could them be written to a file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The problem I'm having now is, it requires AppKit, so I'm building with 
>>>>> application.make included in my makefile, but it then is complaining 
>>>>> there's no shared application object.
>>>>> Basically, I don't want a graphical interface, so I'm not sure where to 
>>>>> go from here.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Steven
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Make a tool instead an app. You only need add in GNUmakefile:
>>>> 
>>>> NEEDS_GUI = YES
>>> 
>>> That wont help much. What you need to do is initialize the application. 
>>> Just add [NSApplication sharedApplication] somewhere in your code before 
>>> you use any of the other gui classes.
>>> 
>> 
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