Re: Creating PDF reports

[A. Arias]

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

Regards.