Kurt Gibson wrote:
> One important solution I created in Filemaker Pro requires very
> detailed and exact replication of official court forms with database
> data entered on the forms. Imagine a form with small type, boxes and
> spacing that must be exactly as on the official form and data from
>
Hi
Why not take a look at Rekall - http://www.totalrekall.co.uk. Rekall is a
RAD tool for building database applications. It is similar to both
FileMaker and MS Access but costs a faction of the price. Rekall supports
PostreSQL natively as well as several other database engines. An ODBC
interfa
On May 12, 2005, at 7:44 PM, John DeSoi wrote:
On May 12, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Kurt Gibson wrote:
One important solution I created in Filemaker Pro requires very
detailed and exact replication of official court forms with database
data entered on the forms. Imagine a form with small type, boxes and
Though I haven't embarked on any expeditions into the world of printing
yet, I've found Python to be a terrific language for db access. My
solution uses Apple hardware, OSX, postgres, the psycopg programming
interface to Python, Python, and my slowboat hacking with wxPython to
build a GUI fro
Kurt, you might want to take a look at OpenRPT
(http://pgfoundry.org/projects/openrpt/) - it's a Crystal/Access type report
builder for PostgreSQL that works great on any of the feline Mac products.
We don't do print to PDF yet, however, someone has raised his hand to work on
that with some exis
with Filemaker, a database is a table. Each file only has one table
and all layouts/reports/forms and scripts are in the same file. This
setup has pros and cons that are irrelevant now.
I'm not familiar with FileMaker, but my understanding is that it can
communicate with other databases via O
On May 12, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Kurt Gibson wrote:
One important solution I created in Filemaker Pro requires very
detailed and exact replication of official court forms with database
data entered on the forms. Imagine a form with small type, boxes and
spacing that must be exactly as on the offici
