When I drew my current account statement today, I was curious and
applied the “pdfinfo” command on it. I was quite astonished, when it
said this:
Creator: JasperReports (kontoauszug)
Producer: iText 1.4 (by
lowagie.com)
I went back to their first PDF statements in 2006, and they said just
the same.
Of course I would like to get in touch with them and find out,
whether the knowledge, that I acquired recently in that area, could be
of any use.
Yes, of course, there is no obvious current need for them to change
anything regarding these account statements, but …
Postbank has alway only been providing non-business customers with
PDF account statements.
And they have been promising for years now, they wouldn’t keep
neglecting business customers forever 😉
I guess that has to do with extended legal needs, e.g. signed PDF and
so forth.
Right, I shouldn’t forget mentioning this:
During the last couple of months I extended demo/samples/text/TextApp.java
so that I can call all the necessary steps (JRXML->.jasper,
filling into a .jrprint file, creating e.g. PDF) within a single
call to this utility. You can now also pass JRXML parameters to this utility.
So using that simple utility you can create PDF reports in a batch
run, starting from a JRXML or “.jasper” file and a database connection without any
big software around — just the JARs, that this utility needs.