From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,666bab5bfbdf30c2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!p38g2000vbn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:25:42 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <4d2908c7$0$22120$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <9f23e50a-2c2c-4ccc-bd56-f6ffdc6c7ee7@37g2000prx.googlegroups.com> <82aaj73jsr.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.1.112.173 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1294867542 10346 127.0.0.1 (12 Jan 2011 21:25:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p38g2000vbn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.1.112.173; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17374 Date: 2011-01-12T13:25:42-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 12, 11:04=A0am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" wrote: > You make a valid point from the software design point of view. > Unfortunately Microsoft switches interfaces at the speed only slighter > slower than the formats. Remember DDE, OLE? Still, if your target is a Word file, this is the most stable option. More stable than the file format itself. I wouldn't be surprised to see my old code still working properly. In any case, we can think about this issue in this way: if our customer already enjoys paying Microsoft every so often for Office upgrades, then he might also enjoy paying *us* for repeatedly rewriting the document generation engine within the system that we maintain for him. Right? ;-) -- Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com