Printing - Report - PDF

[pas...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm a newbie Smalltalker and just downloaded Dolphin. (I'm an experienced Delphi and .NET Developer ).

Do you have links to tutorials, code, help,... on how I could create PDF files, print reports, other printing stuff ?

I want to do some kind of mail merging : I have an image (a scanned form template) and want to overlay that image with some text (name, address, ...). In the generated PDF it just looks like the form has been filled in...

I also need to create some reports (like Reportbuilder in Delphi)

And last but not least I need to print some ownerdraw stuff. (To PDF, or just print to printer).

It's kind of hard to find some information about this, so any tips, clues or links are welcome.


Thanks for your help

[Bruno]

The easy way to do that is to buy a DLL or COM component to perform
PDF tasks and handle the DLL/COM within Dolpnin Smalltalk.

Regards,
Bruno

[Guillermo Sapaya]

On Apr 25, 8:14 pm, pasd...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie Smalltalker and just downloaded Dolphin.  (I'm an experienced Delphi and .NET Developer ).

Welcome!
I hope my reply not arrive too later...

>
> Do you have links to tutorials, code, help,... on how I could create PDF files, print reports,  other printing stuff ?

Unfortunatelly, printing reports is a problem with Smalltalk, but not
impossible.
We use Excel for printing reports. All our reports out to Excel and
then we can print or if it is necessary, we print to a PDF file (using
a PDF printer like CutePDF).
Using COM you can easily wrapp and manipulate any kind of component on
Dolphin. WE wrapped Excel and have a top level framework that allows
an advanced user to configure its reports for printing on Excel.
It is very simple to wrap any component on Dolphin and use it. In the
link bellow you can see a video where Andy explain how to wrapp a COM
component with Dolphin. In this case, Itunes:

http://blip.tv/smalltalk/interfacing-to-itunes-com-2007017

Regars,
Guillermo Sapaya