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Subject:    Re: poi for generating documents from predefined templates?
From:       Glen Stampoultzis <gstamp () iprimus ! com ! au>
Date:       2002-09-12 13:50:08
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Poi doesn't support writing of work documents yet.  If you're wanting to 
write your reports to Excel then Poi would work okay for this.  Some 
features (such has rewriting sheets with VB Macro's) will give you some 
problems but for more basic features you shouldn't have too many problems.

Regards,

Glen Stampoultzis


Jev wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> What I am trying to achieve is as follows;
> 
> I have a web application (jsp/servlet based), which shall store template
> documents, that have been designed (page layout, etc)  and uploaded by
> users.
> 
> The web application in turn shall plug the template documents with data
> from a database, and then shall be returned to the user. It's possible
> that multiple doc's may be generated, in which case they should be
> loaded to the user in one large document. (Imagine multiple letters, in
> one large doc separated by page breaks, ready to be printed in one go).
> 
> Now, the templates that I can get the users to provide can be word,or
> pdf. And the finished documents from the web application can also be word or pdf.
> 
> The major two constraints is that the users can design their own
> templates, and that the documents retain all formatting and logos after
> processing.
> 
> 
> I considered using wh2po, but words html output doesn't retain enough of
> the formatting etc. Another option I looked at was using pdf's and fdf's
> but thats no good for batch processing (the pdf/fdf merge takes place on
> the client side, and server side solutions for this are too expensive).
> 
> Now, my question is, would poi be a possible solution to the above
> scenario, and more importantly would it be a good solution :)
> Thats about the jist of it, I hope someone is able to follow this :)
> 
> Also are there any editors (im talking MS word or something similar) 
> that can do page layout etc. and produce FO's that my users could use?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any guidance :)
> -Jev



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