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Sometimes things are just mess up ..
If you download any of the 0.8.8 versions of Pentaho Reporting Classic, you will notice one thing: The last page-footer does contain any values. It contains labels, but it never displays function results or other data-items. After this bug survive...
02-Apr-2007
15:19:00
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Converting Paintings into Tables
In Pentaho Reporting Classic, all Report-Elements are positioned somewhere on a canvas. Whenever an band is being printed, the layouting system jumps in an computes the final layout for the band and all child elements. After the layouting is complete,...
19-Mar-2007
21:19:00
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A zoology of layouting systems
Reporting is easy, but layouting is hell. In the field of reporting, there are three major output systems: 1. Painting The generated output is placed freely on a canvas. The whole content generation is graphical, the result has to be a good looking r...
15-Mar-2007
20:02:00
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Pagination and Content Generation Strategies
In the reporting world (and maybe other heavy duty content generators as well) one of the most common (and most difficult) problems is to lay out the generated content into pages. Its not just describing where to put an element, the real problem start...
11-Mar-2007
20:52:00