Xojo should provide a visual PDFDocument designer that can ultimately be exported as JSON text, so that JSON Items can be introduced in the constructor of PdfDocument to implement PDF templates.
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look for reporting server which have usually a report designer and offer different sources.
a report designer is a complex tool.
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It doesn’t need to be very complicated, nor does it require a database.
Just need to be able to design a template, including text and graphics.
Generating specific data relies entirely on code. Similar to the COM interface of Word and Excel.
I prefer they work on critical bugs. I would never use a template editor like this.
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You could make one yourself and share it with us. I would need one for html to pdf reports.
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i think more or less you will open a .pdf template file
and then drop your data onto of fill formular input fields.
currently xojo can not open a pdf, only create a new one.
Do you know of a development environment that already have one ?
If yes, can you share its name / url so we can see what you mean ?
No it shouldn’t.
That’s a job for Word and mailmerge.
We have a Report Designer in Valentina Studio PRO. With Valentina Reports for Xojo, you can take your report templates and generate PDFs.
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We have BKeney Shorts with a report Designer you can use in your own applications.
I would far rather they fix PDFDocument to allow UTF8 first.
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It is shame since you pretty much are screwed in some markets without it.
Looks like this already exists, at least in a simple starting point:
Indeed