Re: Creating PDF reports

[Robert Slover]

If you have Xvfb available, that can serve as a dummy X server for such 
purposes. (vfb==virtual frame buffer). Unfortunately, it still requires a bunch 
of X infrastructure such as font libraries, X shared libs, etc.

On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:02, Steven LeMaire <address@hidden> wrote:

> I tried adding the [NSApplication sharedApplication] but when I run the 
> program with that in the code, it attempts to connect to a X server (which 
> there is none in this case) and ends.
> 
> For the NEEDS_GUI=YES, do I just plug that anywhere in the makefile ?
> 
> thsnks !
> 
> 
> On 2013-02-27, at 3:10 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> Am 27.02.2013 um 05:07 schrieb Germán "A. Arias" <address@hidden>:
>> 
>>> 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
>> 
>> That wont help much. What you need to do is initialize the application. Just 
>> add [NSApplication sharedApplication] somewhere in your code before you use 
>> any of the other gui classes.
>> 
> 
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