Re: [TCLUG:22961] Report Writing Components?

["Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net>]

You can use JSP, XML, XSL using Cocoon to produce PDF as well :)

Tom Veldhouse
veldy@veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Sandquist" <tsandqui@yahoo.com>
To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:22961] Report Writing Components?


> Also, I remember seeing that php had some pdf stuff in it.  Didn't look
> at it too deeply but that might be worth looking at.
>
> If you are gonna use ldap it probably wouldn't take much to set up a
> perl script to process an ldif file.
>
> Dunno.  Sounds like a fun project though.
> Man, I wish I had more time.
>
> Tim
>
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 07:13:55PM -0500, Ben Kochie wrote:
> > hrm.. you could write some perl scripts to output html.. and use an
> > html->ps converter.. or html->pdf. (or as carl says.. sgml :)
> > there are also a few crystal style report writers out there for unix..
tho
> > they are very expensive.. couple thousand.. but they have direct db
access
> > for a lot of big ones.. like oracle or sybase so you don't have to use
> > ODBC
> >
> > Thank You,
> >         Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)
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> > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Bob Tanner wrote:
> >
> > > 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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