I already have a ui that collects all the information I need to print over a Pre-printed paper (invoices). And I need to print collected informacion in specific places of the paper. So far I've been generating from the program, an excel file that is used for this purpose. I would like to know if there is a way to avoid the excel file, and print directly from the ui.
Thanks in advance.
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Good day to all. I am currently building a program that covers the review of product warranty applications. I'm doing it in javaFX using Netbeans. The program has the following scenes:
a screen where the information of each guarantee request is entered. all the information is stored in a table in a database. The interaction between the program and the database is done, in effect, through JDBC.
a screen where you can see a table that shows all the requests that have been saved. if a row is selected, a button that carries the third scene all the data of the request that was selected is enabled.
a screen where all the data of the tests that are made to the selected guarantee application are entered. The results are also stored in another table in the database.
After the application is evaluated, a warranty review report must be generated. Currently this format is generated in pdf from excel. What I want to do is that from the data results of the tests stored in the database I can dynamically generate the pdf formats from the program in javaFX. Is there a plugin to write these documents automatically? I'm good at writing texts in LaTEX, so if there is a way to generate the latex format from the program and call the necessary information from the database, it would be perfect. Thanks in advance for the help. Any indication or idea is welcome.
It seems like you have two core requirements:
Fetch data from the database suitable for reporting
Generate the report(s) in PDF from JavaFX but can fall back to LaTEX
What you really need seems like a PDF library for Java. I can suggest iText and Docmosis as good options (please note I work for Docmosis) - both are commercial for commercial products so you would have to buy.
Assuming you are using one of these libraries, the process for each report is:
execute the query to fetch the appropriate data for the report
manipulate the data if required to make the reporting stage simple
generate the report
Using iText you would write the query, the manipulation code and then the code to layout the report including the data.
Using Docmosis you would write the query, possibly some manipulation code (Docmosis can also work directly with your ResultSet) and the code to execute the report. The layout is designed in the template (Word or Libre Office Writer).
When you mention writing "these documents automatically" I assume you mean creating the PDF file format, which iText and Docmosis can do. If you mean creating the report layout itself, then you always need to design/write something to make the report do what you require.
I hope that helps.
Thank you very much for your response Paul! I had found something related to the libraries you mentioned, and indeed something like what I'm looking for. I notice that you are more in the subject. then, you do not know bookstore, preferably free, that gives me the possibility of doing the following (pseudo code):
take the row from the database
Save the information of that row in the attributes of a created class.
create text1: "the guarantee with reference" + object.attribute1 + "was not approved in view of the physical revision test indicated that" + object.attribute2 + "
create text2: "..."
...
create the text n: "..."
take text 1 and place it in the header of the pdf document
Take text 2, put it in bold and place it in the subtitle
Generate a table and fill it with the content of text 3, 4 ...
compile all information as a pdf, (word file, xls or others if possible)
I am clear that with the libraries that you recommend you can easily make items from
1 to 8, but I do not know if it is possible to enter the texts within a template created, so that the library accommodates all the texts in the respective zones of the template file. I imagine that this can easily be done with Latex, since everything is written in plain text.
I found a library called Java LaTeX Report (JLR) that allows me to do what I want. This information may be useful to someone. Thank you again for your answer Paul, if you consider the libraries that you mention do the job more easily than JLR please let me know!
I want to develop an application in Java which takes data (ex.name of person, Amount) from excel-sheet and print it on cheque. I can able to access data from excel-sheet but don't know how to print that data on cheque. Data must get print on appropriate location on cheque (ex. name should get print where blank space is given for name). please give me a guideline for this. Thank you in advance. I am not native English speaker so kindly ignore my mistakes.
You can use a reporting tool. You can see examples here: http://www.dynamicreports.org/
I would create a PNG image for each record, with a transparent background and data at the right place. Then I would launch the printing of these images .
That sounds hacky and someone might have a better idea.
i'm writing a program that calculates moments from a shape and writes the results to an excel spreadsheet, using the apache poi package
Anyway, i'm getting the correct figures its just when i write them to the spreadsheet, the figures mysteriously change, for example the program will produce a result like 8.092238721555691E-4, but in the spreadsheet its stored as 0.000809224....
To deepen the mystery some the figures are being stored correctly...
Has anyone any experience of something similar, or any suggestions?
Both are same: you can read 8.092238721555691E-4 as 8.092238721555691 * (10^-4)
I create one page workbook files in eclipse and need to open the print dialog box and print these files off. I understand how to open the print dialog box and everything, i just can't find how to tell the system that it is the workbook file "wb" that is what i'm wanting to print. So opening the dialog just doesn't work unless it knows what i'm trying to print with it. Could someone at least send me in the right direction Without telling me to read the java print dialog tutorials. I've read them three times now and i don't understand how to make my situation work :/ I'm not handling graphic objects, i'm handling workbook objects.
Although there are some rumors around here that say it's not possible to do it directly, you might want to convert it first to PDF (1,2) and then print it.
I haven't tried pdfbox printing, if the results are disappointing, it might be possible to use libre office not only as a converter, but also as the printing engine ...
I'm writing an application which utilises tables which can be printed if the user so desires and I wish to print a JTable filled with data, except I haven't been able to find an option to remove the formatting; the printed tables looks like it does in the GUI (based on the system theme) which is making the table less readable and using excess ink.
I wish to print the same data with clear formatting. Is there a way to do this straight from a JTable or is my best option simply to print to a file and have the use printer from there. Currently it functions through a viewer which gives the user some options for printing, and then it goes to the system's printer.
Since 1.5, "Simple new print() methods allow for quick and easy addition of printing support to your application."