Re: Report generation

I use pdflib to generate pdf from database results. It is a library, with no knobs on it like Access or Crystal, but it is rock solid and has scripting language bindings for perl (ack) and tcl among others. c is native.

It will work great in the environment you describe. It is licensed under the Aladdin Free Public License, which should be fine. There are others.

www.pdflib.com

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>>> Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com> 02/15/02 06:25AM >>>
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> Haven't tried it but I came across this.
>
> http://datavision.sourceforge.net/
>
> It is suppose to be Crystal Reports like.
>
> Down side, to me at least, is it is Java. My success with Java
> applications - the ones I really want - has been less that stellar,
> therefore I haven't been willing to spend the time exploring this.

Rod,

Thanks for the pointer. And, I agree about Java (despite having a friend
who's quite the expert with it). A few years ago I tried one app (it might
have been MoneyDance) that required me to get an earlier version of the JRE
in order to run. After wasting about an hour on it I gave up.

I think that it's probably about time to really dig into learning perl.
This will let me write any reports I want and integrate them into the
application. I'll probably be able to code ad-hoc reporting functions, too,
and make it work the way we need it to work.

But, I'll take a look at datavision.

Rich

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