Apache FOP is the tool being used in Standard CRM installation to generate the PDF reports. The phenomenon works on the basis of Extended Style sheet Transformation methodology. We had posted the detailed information on this topic before. Please go through the below link to refer the same. http://sagecrmaddons.blogspot.com/2009/07/file-to-pdf-conversion-using-fop.html As per the block diagram in… Read More: FOP shell command »
In our earlier posts we had described how we are able to print a pdf from SageCRM using FOP. Information in the above post enables you to get data from SageCRM tables and print it into pdf. We just enhanced the functionality by allowing the user to print any existing Crystal reports designed to run… Read More: Mailing reports after converting from Crystal Reports to PDF format »
FOP i.e. Formatting Objects Processor is one of the very efficient print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects. It is an application which is based on JAVA that reads a formatting object tree and then converts it to the desired output format according to the requirement and parameters we specify. The formatting object tree can… Read More: File to PDF conversion using FOP »
You can see the Export To Word button on the Quote Summary Screen. Clicking this button you can select the template for the mail merge and move ahead with merging the Quote Line Items in the word document. Suppose, you dont want the word document being generated here and you want PDF document instead then… Read More: Export To PDF functionality for Quotes in Sage CRM »
