Report Writing Components?

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

This is a problem I have been struggling with for some time.

Many productivity appplications are moving to the web, but the single biggest
problem I can see is printing. 

Sure, you can have great looking html, but when you print it from the browser,
it just sucks.

Many applications store their data in a database, but as LDAP get more press,
many thing in a database might (should?) move to LDAP.

Are there any open source tools that will help you write reports using a
database or directory server as a data repository?

Ideally, you could save the reports as pdf, since that seems to be universal
enough.

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