The data values would mostly either be substituted into fields in the template, with no to minimal processing of values required. This is in contrast to using an approach of using a PDF library like Reportlab directly within the web server, and having to build up the template/report programmatically.Īs LibreOffice/OpenOffice is obviously a lot faster for generating good looking report "templates", this is a question about doing both the template generation, plus final template + data -> PDF generation all directly within LibreOffice. We have a need to frequently modify/customise/generate new templates, hence the reluctance to go down a route of using something like Reportlab (plus I don't know Reportlab at all, so face huge learning curve that way Background
This would act as a headless service that gets invoked when necessary from a web server, when a user requests a PDF report (on linux). I’m looking to generate PDF reports, based on a combination of a “template” and a set of data (currently in JSON format) and inserted images.
I’m looking for advice on whether scripting LibreOffice or OpenOffice would be suitable for the following: General Question I hope it’s Ok to post a complete naive question here for LO or OO experts.
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