Big Faceless Report Generator 1.1.27 review

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

License: Shareware OS: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10 File size: 0K Developer: Big Faceless Organization Price: $0.00 Updated: 02 Sep 2005

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The Big Faceless Report Generator 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. Download a fully functional demo stamped version from the site for free testing.

Here are some key features of "Big Faceless Report Generator":
Create dynamic reports using JSP’s, ASP’s, XSLT - whatever you would normally use to create dynamic HTML pagesSimple HTML-style XML syntax makes migration for HTML reports (and HTML programmers) relatively painless
Use Cascading Style Sheets (level 2) to control the document look-and-feel
Build Reports on top of existing PDF documents (Extended Edition only)
Full support for autosized, nested tables, lists, hyperlinks, images and other familar HTML features
Inline generation of graphs and charts, in full shaded 3D!
Embed XML metadata directly in the PDF, following Adobes XMPTM specification
Native Unicode support. No worrying about codepages, encodings and so on, it just works
Embed and subset TrueType and Type 1 fonts, or use one of the 14 latin or 8 east-asian built in fonts
40 and 128-bit PDF Encryption, for eyes only documents. Digital signatures too.
Auto-pagination of content with headers, footers and watermarks
Use ICC color profiles, spot color and patterns for sophisticated color control
Draw barcodes and simple vector graphics directly into the document using XML elements.

Limitations:
Time unlimited fully functional demo.
Limitation: "demo" stamped.

What's New:
Smarter embedded font initialization when italic, bold and bold-italic are really the same as the regular font
Fixed rare infinite loop when laying out some tables with incorrect colspan attributes
Fixed occasional incorrect wrap when white-space="forced" is used
Another tweak to table layout inside paragraphs
No longer crashes with invalid 'style="display:;"' attribute
Added "qrcode" and "pdf417" codes to barcode.
Added "aes" as an option for encryption-algorithm, for Acrobat 7.0 encryption
Built with PDF library 2.5.1, Graph library 1.1.6.