Re: Creating PDF reports

[Robert Slover]

The only DPS programming I have done was on AIX 3. It still required an X 
server with DPS extensions (imagine the simple example of rendering a string 
and then asking for its length - pretty much requires a full-on PostScript 
interpreter). The GNUStep DPS/GhostScript backend was never very functional, 
and AFAIK hasn't worked in about 10 years - but others can definitely provide 
better answers than I can here.

--Robert

On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:39, Maxthon Chan <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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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