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[Nicolas Bessi <nicolas.bessi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Maybe my intentions were not clear enough, actually I was not comparing
wkhtmltopdf and Qweb but the module report_webkit with new QWeb repot
system.
The objective of this thread is to disambiguate the current situation with
the two reports system, and inform community that Camptocamp will
maintained report_webkit ecosystem for release 8.

For the other points, Olivier gave all needed information : )

Regards

Nicolas




2014-02-18 11:53 GMT+01:00 Niels Huylebroeck <nh@xxxxxxxxxx>:

> Nicolas,
>
> I can't see how you can compare wkhtmltopdf and qweb ?
> Wouldn't it make more sense to compare jinja2 with qweb ?
>
> I can see some benefit in using qweb to generate the underlying html since
> it would allow inheritance for report generation (stacking multiple reports
> on top of the same base templates) and reducing the number of templating
> languages to learn while developing with OpenERP.
> But in the end if you want to print to pdf you will have to either use
> wkhtmltopdf or the browser's own ability to convert html to paginated
> format/layout and save or print the output.
>
> Currently though I'm not sure if qweb is used for generating the screen
> layout when you do a print (preview) from the browser. Most of the layout
> there is defined by the regular model view afaik.
>
> Regards,
> Niels
>