Thoughts of Dan

The problem with power is that... well... it's POWERFUL.  It can be used for both good and ill, but regardless of it's usage, the more power there is behind a command, the harder it is for the individual to resist.  That's pretty close to the definition of power. It's become clear that throughout history there are some people who are driven to accumulate power.  It's also become clear that there is no correlation between a person's ability to accumulate power and his/her desire to use it to benefit mankind.  Certainly there have been examples of power being used very wisely, and for the benefit of man -- but there more than numerous regrettable examples. The Libertarian viewpoint is that the only way to prevent these tragedies is to prevent the accumulation of power.  We believe that all power originates from the people as individuals, thus governments and corporations only acquire power by a lessening of the power of the people.  If governmen...

I've been using BIRT a bit and in our project we generate alot of PDFs and have found BIRT to be the beswt product there is for that.  One thing BIRT does NOT allow you to do is to combine reports.  The below is my Servlet based solution for that which correctly renumbers the pages  It borrows the concatenation from Abhi on Java. I also bought IText in Action   A must have for the serious developer of PDF's in Java. I've stripped out the company specific part of this code, but have not tried compiling this version.  it should be pretty damn close to what you need though.  Ask if you have any questions. Of course this code is completely free to use and is released under the Academic Free License ********************************** import javax.servlet.*; import javax.servlet.http.*; import com.itextpdf.text.Document; import com.itextpdf.text.PageSize; import java.io.*; import java.net.URL; import java.util.*; public class PDFServlet exten...