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[Fabien Pinckaers <fp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

More info:

Starting v8, we will stop supporting the report_webkit module and we
will use the QWeb report engine of Simon, that is being merged in trunk
in a few hours/days.



On 02/18/2014 11:53 AM, Niels Huylebroeck wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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