Hello, I was asked by a colleague if I we can use FME to create a report with 3D Thumbnails like this:
And I'm not sure? Is there a way?
I guess I would have to create the thumbnails externaly and join it back together to create a pdf?
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The solution depends on how often you want to reproduce it, multiple ways to do this.
Not sure about generating the images, but I would use FME to generate a HTML page and export it to PDF.
I prefer to keep the styling part outside FME. Just create a sample page first, then use FME to create a table row for each record using placeholders. Then merge all rows (Aggregator, attributes only, concat, newline as seperator character.) and put the result in table tags. Then put the result in the html tags. This way you can create layout in HTML specific software and do the data in FME.
If the writing to HTML is done you can use a SystemCaller to export to PDF using commandline, with something like PDFCreator.
You also can use the HTMLLayouter if you want to do styling in FME.
Another way is to use Excel but I think the styling part is easier in HTML.