Re: PDF writer

2016-10-21 Thread Matthew Roth
ing the web that allows a crawl to be defined entirely through a GUI, > but question whether it really is much better than a FOSS architecture. > > -Original Message- > From: Alexandre Rafalovitch [mailto:arafa...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 10:35 AM > To

RE: PDF writer

2016-10-21 Thread Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C]
-- From: Alexandre Rafalovitch [mailto:arafa...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 21, 2016 10:35 AM To: solr-user Subject: Re: PDF writer On 21 October 2016 at 09:58, Matthew Roth wrote: > . I could always process the upstream relational data to produce my > PDF reports. I think this is the best

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-21 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
On 21 October 2016 at 09:58, Matthew Roth wrote: > . I could always process the upstream relational data to > produce my PDF reports. I think this is the best option. This allows you to mangle/de-normalize your data stored in Solr to be the best fit for search. Regards, Alex. Solr Exampl

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-21 Thread Matthew Roth
Hi Shawn, Thanks for the thoughtful response on middleware and the solr philosophy. You are correct and I intend to handle this outside of Solr. This inquiry was me doing some forethought on a distant project. When I see an XSLTResponseWriter the jump-to-conclusions part of my brain jumps to PDF.

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-19 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/17/2016 8:01 AM, Matthew Roth wrote: > Is there a documented or preferred path to have a PDF response writer? > I am using solr 5.3.x for an internal project. I have an XSL-FO > transformation that I am able to return via the XSLT response writer. > Is there a documented way to produce a PDF

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread John Bickerstaff
:John Bickerstaff > > Sent: Monday 17th October 2016 22:05 > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: PDF writer > > > > It's not fun to build a .pdf this way, but this may help... > > > > http://itextpdf.com/ > > > > On Mon,

RE: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread Markus Jelsma
Did someone miss https://pdfbox.apache.org/ ? It can write PDF documents, is ASF and has a ton of examples to learn from. M. -Original message- > From:John Bickerstaff > Sent: Monday 17th October 2016 22:05 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: PDF writer &

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread John Bickerstaff
It's not fun to build a .pdf this way, but this may help... http://itextpdf.com/ On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Matthew Roth wrote: > Thanks Erick. That is as anticipated. Scouring my other resources didn't > indicate the existence of a PDF writer. I thought I'd try the

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread Matthew Roth
Thanks Erick. That is as anticipated. Scouring my other resources didn't indicate the existence of a PDF writer. I thought I'd try the group be embarking on a custom solution. Matt On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > There's no PDF writer that I kn

Re: PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread Erick Erickson
There's no PDF writer that I know of, and I doubt there's much enthusiasm for creating one as part of Solr. ResponseWriters are pluggable so this would certainly be possible. At root, in a response writer you just have a map of key/value pairs (it's a little more complicated tha

PDF writer

2016-10-17 Thread Matthew Roth
Hi Group, Is there a documented or preferred path to have a PDF response writer? I am using solr 5.3.x for an internal project. I have an XSL-FO transformation that I am able to return via the XSLT response writer. Is there a documented way to produce a PDF via solr? Alternatively, I was thinking