WebObjects® Developer's Guide

Generating Print with WebObjects

In the bold, new world of cross-media publishing, it seems that WebObjects may also have a part to play. The idea behind cross-media publishing is to develop content that is reproducible on the Web as well as in print. Ultimately, it is intended that such raw content or content that lacks presentation can be distributed to other devices and presented in other forms as well. This is the “Holy Grail” of the publishing world. However, the most important media outlets, for all intents and purposes, are print and the Web.

Dynamically generated content faces these same or similar kinds of challenges. Often many applications require the generation of PDF content, for billing or invoicing applications for example. In ...