Report, generating directly to pdf

[jogrey]

 Hi,

i have a problem, i must use some specifics jrxml, with a lot of rectangles inside, and as we know the JRHtmlExporter got troubles with them so i tried to :

Avoid the html render in copying DefaultJasperViewer.jsp into  a new one, commenting //exporter.exportReport(); to mask the ugly rendered page, this point is ok.

But i don't know how to directly display the pdf, or flash output into an iframe for instance, or at least into a new page.

How to directly call the pdf generator instead of the html one, is there an option for that ?

 

Thank you :)

 

[jogrey]

Anyone of you tried to do such "pdf visualizator" ?

[lucianc]

See http://stage.jasperforge.org/plugins/espforum/view.php?group_id=112&forumid=102&topicid=61401, you'll have to customize JS for that.

HTH,

Lucian

[jogrey]

 Thank you for the link, but with the 3.7CE it seems to be not comptatible, I can't get it working, certainly the xml changed since the version used in the link you gave me.

 

 

[jogrey]

 Is anyone using 3.7 succeed to generate pdf directly ?

[lucianc]

In 3.7.0, you would have to do this:

- change the start-state atrtibute of the root (flow) element to setPdfOutput

- add the lines below after the <input> elements

- restart JS

HTH,

Lucian

Code:

	<action-state id="setPdfOutput">		<set name="flowScope.reportOutput" value="'pdf'"/>		<transition to="checkForParams"/>	</action-state>

[jogrey]

 The code seems to be ok, but, it opens the pdf on the same page, and not in the rendered page as html.

Could we, at least if it is not possible, open the pdf in a new page ?

Thank you anyway !

 

Post Edited by jogrey at 06/23/2010 14:00

[lucianc]

I'm not sure how PDF embedded in HTML would work.

As for opening in a new page, that's most likely possible but I'm not familiar with that part of the code so I don't know what needs to be changed.  Maybe someone else could help.

Regards,

Lucian

[jogrey]

 Doing this modification, we directly render the page :

 

<action-state id="setPdfOutput">

<set name="flowScope.reportOutput" value="'pdf'"/>

<transition to="checkForParams"/>

</action-state>

 

But we cannot choose anymore the export we want to do !

 

As it opens the exported result in the same windows than the jasperserver page, overriding this last one (the user has to click on the back button of the browser to go back to JS).

 

Is anyone of you succeed to change the default render mode of a report without loosing the "export tool bar" ?

I really want to avoid the ugly html rendered pages.

 

Thank you :)