Thread: [Rlib-users] Question about RLIB

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Hi! Is RLIB still supported, in development, "alive", or was it "frozen" 
at 1.3.6?

Best,
F.Kereki

It's still alive.  1.3.7 will be out soon.

- Bob

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:55 -0300, Federico Kereki wrote:
> Hi! Is RLIB still supported, in development, "alive", or was it "frozen" 
> at 1.3.6?
> 
> Best,
> F.Kereki
> 
> 
> 
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Hi,

Bob Doan =EDrta:
> It's still alive.  1.3.7 will be out soon.
>
> - Bob
>
> On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 11:55 -0300, Federico Kereki wrote:
>  =20
>> Hi! Is RLIB still supported, in development, "alive", or was it "froze=
n"=20
>> at 1.3.6?
>>
>> Best,
>> F.Kereki
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Rlib-users mailing list
>> Rli...@li...
>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rlib-users
>>    =20

what's the plan about deploying the PDF compression?
I thought about something like introducing a new
top-level section:

<GlobalOptions>
    <GlobalOption name=3D"compression" value=3D"'true'"/>
</Globals>

For text and HTML output, it will be a no-op for now or
maybe txt.gz and CHM format could also be produced.
There may be a need for other global options, too.

And another idea with another top-level section:

<Queries>
  <Query name=3D"'query1'">select * from table1;</Query>
  <Query name=3D"'query2'">select * from table2;</Query>
</Queries>

It would be useful for the long term (read: self-contained
reports, visual report editor)  to be able to specify
the queries in the report XML, sometimes you don't
need to modify the report's query at all. Two new
API calls can be also added, to get and set the query.
(E.g. Crystal Reports has this feature.)
Although I wonder about the trickier cases, where the
"</Query>" literal occurs inside a string constant
within the SQL query.

Best regards,
Zolt=E1n B=F6sz=F6rm=E9nyi

> what's the plan about deploying the PDF compression?
> I thought about something like introducing a new
> top-level section:

It's an output parameter.. Set "compress" to true (pdf.c 278)

> 
> <GlobalOptions>
>     <GlobalOption name="compression" value="'true'"/>
> </Globals>
> 
> For text and HTML output, it will be a no-op for now or
> maybe txt.gz and CHM format could also be produced.
> There may be a need for other global options, too.

Right now only PDF looks at it.

> 
> And another idea with another top-level section:
> 
> <Queries>
>   <Query name="'query1'">select * from table1;</Query>
>   <Query name="'query2'">select * from table2;</Query>
> </Queries>

Yea.. We should really do this at some point.  It's probably an easy
feature enhancement.

> 
> <Report query="'query1'">
> ...
> </Report>
> 
> It would be useful for the long term (read: self-contained
> reports, visual report editor)  to be able to specify
> the queries in the report XML, sometimes you don't
> need to modify the report's query at all. Two new
> API calls can be also added, to get and set the query.
> (E.g. Crystal Reports has this feature.)
> Although I wonder about the trickier cases, where the
> "</Query>" literal occurs inside a string constant
> within the SQL query.

Yup ;)

Thanks!

- bob

Talking about new features...

Are you planning on adding more font support? Having only courier is a 
bit limiting

Michiel

Bob Doan wrote:
>> what's the plan about deploying the PDF compression?
>> I thought about something like introducing a new
>> top-level section:
>>     
>
> It's an output parameter.. Set "compress" to true (pdf.c 278)
>
>   
>> <GlobalOptions>
>>     <GlobalOption name="compression" value="'true'"/>
>> </Globals>
>>
>> For text and HTML output, it will be a no-op for now or
>> maybe txt.gz and CHM format could also be produced.
>> There may be a need for other global options, too.
>>     
>
> Right now only PDF looks at it.
>
>   
>> And another idea with another top-level section:
>>
>> <Queries>
>>   <Query name="'query1'">select * from table1;</Query>
>>   <Query name="'query2'">select * from table2;</Query>
>> </Queries>
>>     
>
>
> Yea.. We should really do this at some point.  It's probably an easy
> feature enhancement.
>
>   
>> <Report query="'query1'">
>> ...
>> </Report>
>>
>> It would be useful for the long term (read: self-contained
>> reports, visual report editor)  to be able to specify
>> the queries in the report XML, sometimes you don't
>> need to modify the report's query at all. Two new
>> API calls can be also added, to get and set the query.
>> (E.g. Crystal Reports has this feature.)
>> Although I wonder about the trickier cases, where the
>> "</Query>" literal occurs inside a string constant
>> within the SQL query.
>>     
>
> Yup ;)
>
> Thanks!
>
> - bob
>
>
>
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Hi,

Michiel Betel =EDrta:
> Talking about new features...
>
> Are you planning on adding more font support? Having only courier is a=20
> bit limiting
>
> Michiel
>  =20

I was looking at it but at the moment
I cannot continue hacking on RLIB.
The documentation on PDF formats
you can download from the Adobe website
isn't exactly helpful on how to embed a font.
I have to buy some more real-life docs,
like PDF 5 Bible or similar.

Best regards,
Zolt=E1n B=F6sz=F6rm=E9nyi