Re: PDF Performance

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah.  I follow you now.

Would you mind if I added additional approaches to your code base?

Aaron Bartell
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Pete Helgren <Pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't respond to the second part of your message.
>
> "I am curious to know how it would handle a report that had many
> hundreds of detail lines along with header type data."
>
> Remember for Jasper and BIRT I am only *calling* the report.  The report
> is populated by the Jasper or Birt engine, not by RRE.  The data query
> and formatting is all handled by the report engines in Java, not by
> RRE.  So, RRE just wraps the entire engine for Jasper and Birt.
>
> The iText stuff is more like traditional I/O.  Actually, the iText
> wrapper is like the POI stuff that Scott did for HSSFR.  Read a record
> in SQL and then write to the iText API with the data.
>
> HTH,
>
> Pete