Hi Pedro,
tFileOutputFTP is a custom component which I downloaded from this site after seeing discussions about it when I searched on PDF, XSL etc. It works fine, except that it is very limited - creating just a title and one table regardless of the input. I need to lay out an order document with titles, order number, date etc., two addresses, a table for line items and some totals.
I'm not a java programmer and I don't have the knowledge to write my own component. I'm very surprised that Talend doesn't have one and PDF is a requirement we have for suppliers who cannot receive electronic purchase orders. I've read that you need to use tXSLT to generate an XSLT-FO file from the XML data and XSL stylesheet (and I've done that), but you then need an engine to transform the FO (formatted objects) to PDF. Apache FOP is one such engine, which is why I mentioned it, but tFileOutputFTP doesn't use it.Talend can obviously generate PDFs as it does this for its reporting. Therefore it shouldn't be too difficult to make it available as a component, I would have thought.
Looking at the code for tFileOutputFTP, there are calls to com.lowagie.text, and in particular com.lowagie.text.pdf, which placed into Google brings up the information beow. I assume this is how the author is doing it?
Is there nothing I can do, short of engaging a java programmer?
Jackie
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com.lowagie.text.pdf
public class: PdfWriter
java.lang.Object
com.lowagie.text.DocWriter
com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter
All Implemented Interfaces:
PdfPageActions, PdfRunDirection, PdfViewerPreferences, PdfDocumentActions, PdfAnnotations, PdfXConformance, PdfEncryptionSettings, PdfVersion, DocListener
Direct Known Subclasses:
PdfCopy, PdfStamperImp, PdfCopyFieldsImp, Wrt, PdfSmartCopy, PdfCopyFormsImp
A DocWriter class for PDF.
When this PdfWriter is added to a certain PdfDocument, the PDF representation of every Element added to this Document will be written to the outputstream.
