Printing and tabular data (again)

FROM : Luca Torella
DATE : Wed Apr 16 23:44:06 2008

Hi all,
I know this has been discussed many times before, but I still can't 
find a definitely easy and all-purpose answer. Is it really that hard 
to print the content of an NSTableView? It seems there are two main 
ways to do that.

- The first way is to create another NSTableView in an invisible 
window as covered in this topic:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=273153

- The second approach is to create an NSString containing HTML code 
that should be rendered by the fabulous WebKit.

Well I dislike both approaches: they are both not so smooth as I'm 
used to with Cocoa. And I can't believe there isn't an open-source 
class or a framework that can be used and can be improved by Cocoa 
developers. Printing tabular data in Cocoa is just to hard and this 
should be fixed as soon as possible in my opinion, in the while the 
Cocoa community should work out to find a solution.
I'll be happy to give my contribute, but first I'd like to know some 
opinions about other Cocoa developers and their approaches to this 
problem.

Thanks in advance,
Luca