In Chapter 2, Getting Started with Report Designer, you saw where to find all the Pentaho Reporting tools: at the SourceForge website (https://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho), particularly in the Report Designer
folder of the Files
repository. In the Report Designer
folder, you find a ZIP file called pre-classic-sdk-*.zip
, containing the whole Pentaho Reporting SDK. As you can imagine, download the ZIP file into your laptop and that's all. As introduced for Report Designer, the distribution packages are always free for downloading and no fee or costs should be required.
Once you have downloaded the distribution package of Pentaho Reporting SDK, create a directory on your machine and unzip the contents inside. This is all you have to do to get Pentaho Reporting SDK available in your environment. Before moving forward, note the PDF file called embedding_pentaho_reporting_engine
in the documentation
folder. This file is extremely useful and we highly recommend...