Generating a PDF programatically with precision placement...

I have a coworker who is creating a poster-sized calendar in Illustrator. Imagine a calendar with 100 events on it, each represented by a rectangle containing text describing the event, and some other details, in a nice typeface, and a few other simple but very nicely-designed symbols, and maybe a drop shadow around the box. All the elements are not complicated, but they are hand-designed.
The problem is the customer would like several different renditions of this calendar poster, with events placed in different ways. And then they could call each week with new events to add. This is too much work for someone to hand-place all these elements and enter text for each one.
So I can write software however I need an API or SDK that allows a way to create this kind of diagram by the software reading the events from a spreadsheet and then placing them in x-y space. I know that in theory I could have a program generate SVG for example, but then I have to translate all the careful designs of the elements into mathematical descriptions, right? Also, how would I get SVG into a pdf?
I have written Flex software to display this calendar in Flash player, however there appears to be no serious Adobe capability to convert Flash DisplayObjects to PDF. There are some open source libraries written by soloists (e.g. Prawn) but I need something more mature.
It's not enough to just create rectangles with ugly text -- that may be impressive for a developer audience but I need this to look like what our designer created in Illustrator. Most of the examples of dynamic PDF generation I see are ugly and not presentable -- or the programming becomes just too complicated.
Thanks for any advice!

If you need the formatting capabilities of Illustrator, you probably want to
work with the Illustrator SDK (http://www.adobe.com/devnet/illustrator/sdk/).
Creating text effects in PDF is not impossible, but much harder to do.
KHK

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My Input from MS-Excel file is:
     Planning and Tracking Template for Interns
     Name of the Intern     N.Kesavulu Reddy
     Project Name     Enterprise Sales and Marketing
     Description     Estimated Effort in Hrs     Planned/Replanned          Actual          Actual Effort in Hrs     Complexity     Priority     LOC written new & modified     % work completion     Status     Rework     Remarks
S.No               Start Date     End Date     Start Date     End Date
1     setup the configuration          31/01/2005     1/2/2005     31/01/2005     1/2/2005
2     Deploying an application through Tapestry, Spring, Hibernate          2/2/2005     2/2/2005     2/2/2005     2/2/2005
3     Gone through Componentization and Cxprice application          3/2/2005     3/2/2005     3/2/2005     3/2/2005
4     Attend the sessions(tapestry,spring, hibernate), QBA          4/2/2005     4/2/2005     4/2/2005     4/2/2005
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Planning and Tracking Template for Interns
N.Kesavulu Reddy Name of the Intern
Enterprise Sales and Marketing Project Name
Remarks Rework Status % work completion LOC written new & modified Priority
Complexity Actual Effort in Hrs Actual Planned/Replanned Estimated Effort in Hrs Description
End Date Start Date End Date Start Date S.No
38354.0 31/01/2005 38354.0 31/01/2005 setup the configuration 1.0
38385.0 38385.0 38385.0 38385.0 Deploying an application through Tapestry, Spring, Hibernate
2.0
38413.0 38413.0 38413.0 38413.0 Gone through Componentization and Cxprice application
3.0
38444.0 38444.0 38444.0 38444.0 Attend the sessions(tapestry,spring, hibernate), QBA 4.0
                                   The issues i'm facing are:
When it is reading a row from MS-Excel it is writing to the .pdf file from last cell to first cell.( 2 cell in 1 place, 1 cell in 2 place like if the row has two cells with data as : Name of the Intern: Kesavulu Reddy then it is writing to the .pdf file as Kesavulu Reddy Name of Intern)
and the second issue is:
It is not recognizing the date format..it is recognizing the date in first row only......
Plz Tell me wht is the solution for this...
Regards
[email protected]

Don't double post your question:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=617605&messageID=3450899#3450899
/Kaj

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With FPDF module for PHP you can create PDF's online.
The problem is that - when generated PDF appears on phone it doesn't show Latvian language ( cp1257 or ISO-8859-13 for example ). For example - "ŗķļņž" and "ŖĶĻŅŽ" is shown with other symbols.
However opening the same file with standart app "Polaris Office" - the text is show as it used to be, without problem.
Strange bug, that i can't fix from PHP ( Tried a lot of decodes and encodes ). Also i have saved PHP file with different encodings - nothing helped.

You might ask about this in the regular forum. There are several form experts there that may be able to help you.

Trying to generate a pdf with jasper reports

Fellas,
i hav trying to generate a pdf with jasper reports, but i cant. I create a file .jasper with iReports. This is my code:
emite.java
package utilitarios;
//import net.sf.jasperreports
import net.sf.jasperreports.engine.*;
import net.sf.jasperreports.view.JasperViewer;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.io.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class emitebl {
private static Connection getConnection( ) throws ClassNotFoundException, SQLException{
String driver = "org.postgresql.Driver";
String url = "jdbc:postgresql://localhost/sist";
String user = "usuario";
String password = "";
Class.forName(driver);
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection( url, user, password );
return con;
public void geraRelatorio( ) throws JRException, Exception{
Connection con = getConnection( );
Statement stm = con.createStatement( );
String query = "SELECT * FROM emissaobl WHERE id=4";
ResultSet rs = stm.executeQuery(query);
JRResultSetDataSource jrRS = new JRResultSetDataSource(rs);
Map parameters = new HashMap();
JasperFillManager.fillReportToFile("emitebl.jasper",parameters,jrRS);
JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfFile("emitebl.jrprint");
JasperViewer.viewReport("emissao_bl.pdf",false);
} emissao.jsp:
<%@ page import="utilitarios.*" %>
<%
new emitebl().geraRelatorio();
%>Following the error message exception:
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: emitebl.jasper
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:846)
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:779)
 org.apache.jsp.emissaobl.exportapdf_jsp._jspService(exportapdf_jsp.java:76)
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:99)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:325)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:245)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
 org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:362)
root cause
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JRException: emitebl.jasper
 net.sf.jasperreports.engine.util.JRLoader.loadObject(JRLoader.java:73)
 net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperFillManager.fillReportToFile(JasperFillManager.java:270)
 utilitarios.emitebl.geraRelatorio(emitebl.java:37)
 org.apache.jsp.emissaobl.exportapdf_jsp._jspService(exportapdf_jsp.java:54)
 org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:99)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:325)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
 org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:245)
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
 org.netbeans.modules.web.monitor.server.MonitorFilter.doFilter(MonitorFilter.java:362)where i hav to put the .jasper file?

Hi,
If you have placed your .jrxml file say in C:\reports, and when you use compileReportToFile(jrxmlFileName), then the jasper file will be created in the same directory C:\report with the same file name with .jasper extension. If you want a pdf report then specify the same location and file name with '.pdf' extension as destination .
Hope this helps

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