Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-10-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/17/2010 06:55 PM, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 10/17/2010 06:47 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: >> list user wrote: >>> Hi All; >>> >>> I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in >>> a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural >>> method base

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-10-17 Thread Genes MailLists
On 10/17/2010 06:47 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > list user wrote: >> Hi All; >> >> I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in >> a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural >> method based on a template. Haven't used it but this may work f

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-10-17 Thread Bill Davidsen
list user wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in > a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural > method based on a template. > > We tried to do this via open office & it's templating features but this > process requ

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-09-30 Thread Patrick Kobly
Depends on the languages you can work with and what level of control you need Jasperreports - jasperforge.org is an appropriate solution in the Java world BIRT - http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/ - also provides reporting tools in the Java world PHP offers bindings for PDFlib (not really ch

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-09-30 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:54 AM, list user wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in a > database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural > method based on a template. > > We tried to do this via open office & it's templati

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-09-30 Thread Scott Karlin
On 09/30/10 11:54, list user wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in > a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural > method based on a template. > > We tried to do this via open office & it's templating features bu

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-09-30 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, list user wrote: > I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in a > database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural > method based on a template. One can generate postscript with printf. In the pre-pdf days, that was how I ma

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-09-30 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 09/30/2010 11:54 AM, list user wrote: > I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in > a database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural > method based on a template. ... > method. So, I'm looking for a way to generate PDF's straight away as > d

Re: generating PDF's via code - looking for ideas

2010-09-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 09:54:17 -0600, list user wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in a > database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural > method based on a template. > > We tried to do this via open office & it'