The FormLayouts library pourpose is to provide an easy and flexibe way to build form layouts based on flat PDF files so that content data may be written upon it.
This libray is not intended to be a reporting tool (hhere are others), but simply a way to fill and render fixed format forms, such as application forms and such.
Form Layouts are defined in XML (The libray may be extended for aditional data source types),
and comprise the folowing items:
* Form layout Name and description
* Form template (pure graphical contents) PDF file;
* Named fields, defining content type (java class) and output format, label and description;
* Static text contents;
* Definition of named, reusable field types;
* Field and static context may be assigned style (font, size, color, ...)
* Definition of named, reusable Styles.... read more
The FormLayouts library pourpose is to provide an easy and flexibe way to build form layouts based on flat PDF files so that content data may be written upon it.
This libray is not intended to be a reporting tool (hhere are others), but simply a way to fill and render fixed format forms, such as application forms and such.
Form Layouts are defined in XML (The libray may be extended for aditional data source types),
and comprise the folowing items:
* Form layout Name and description
* Form template (pure graphical contents) PDF file;
* Named fields, defining content type (java class) and output format, label and description;
* Static text contents;
* Definition of named, reusable field types;
* Field and static context may be assigned style (font, size, color, ...)
* Definition of named, reusable Styles.... read more