Introduction

This pull request is one of the activities to support a new report type called section-report format. See Issue: Implement "New Report Type: Section Report" for the details.

Summary

This pull request adds a support for the section-report format proposed at the Issue: New Report Type: SectionReport to the generator.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

To generate PDF with the section-report format, you need a template (tlf) file for the section-report format. You have to use the new Thinreports Editor to create a template file for the section-report format.

Examples

Some example codes (Ruby codes, templates, and output PDFs) are listed at the Issue: Implement "New Report Type: Section Report".

Implementation Status

Here is the current implementation status based on the feature concept in Issue: New Report Type: SectionReport.

Not Implemented

• fixed at the bottom property for footer sections
• page-number item

Additional Features

• stack-view item
  • See StackView for details
• offset_x and offset_y parameters for item position translation
  • See Item Parameter for details
  • Limitation: Only supports image-block items
• automatic shrink
  • See Section Auto Stretch and StackViewRow Auto Stretch for details
  • Limitation: Sections and stack-view-rows shrink only by image-block items whose vertical-align property is top.
• follow-stretch property, which specifies how to change the layout of an item according to the stretch of the section or the stack-view-row
  • See Item Follow Stretch for details
  • Limitation: Some item types are not supported

Known Issues

• performance problem
  • The height calculations of sections or stack-view-rows are called several times