Re: Creating PDF reports

[Pirmin Braun]

you may want to use IntarS for this; it can be run by cron in Batch mode; 
Database operations and PDF reporting are implemented in Scripts;

Am Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:04:35 -0500
schrieb Steven LeMaire <address@hidden> :

> 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
> 
> 
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