Big Faceless Report Generator 1.1.32 review

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial File size: 4500K Developer: Big Faceless Organization

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Big Faceless Report Generator project is a Java application for converting source documents written in XML to PDF.

Built on top of the Big Faceless PDF & Graph Libraries, the Report Generator combines these features and wraps an XML parser around them.

Using JSP, ASP, XSL, or similar, creating dynamic PDF documents directly from a database is now as easy as HTML.

Here are some key features of "Big Faceless Report Generator":
HTML-style Tables - auto-sized nested tables with full control over padding, margins and borders
Use cascading CSS2 stylesheets to control look and feel
Create inline graphs and charts with XML, direct from the database
Includes a servlet and a servlet filter for simple generation of PDF's from XML or JSP pages.
Auto pagination of content with page headers and footers
Familiar HTML syntax - < a >, < ul >, < p >, < table >, < td > and so on - simpler and faster than FOP
All the features of our PDF library - Unicode support, Encryption, TrueType fonts, Barcodes and more

Requirements:
Java 1.2
SAX parser

What's New in This Release:
Some tweaks to allow graphs created with the Graph Library 2 to be embedded into a report.
Although theoretically this can be done no matter how the report is generated, these changes work best when the report is created using a JSP.