Re: [gnome-db] What's the advantage of Gda Reports?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 21:44, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > > I'd rather learn XSL FO rather than Gda Reports formatting, as FO is a
> > > standard. 
> > > We can get the query results as XML and format them with XSL FO rather
> > > than Gda.
> > >
> > well, that's the idea, what do you mean by "rather than GDA"?
> So we have the query results as XML from gnomedb. We can either format
> them with a gda report or with XSL, right?
> 
we are going to format them with XSLT in libgda itself.

> I looked at valid-example.xml in libgda testing, seems to do the same as
> XSL, but with a different API (simpler, but less powerful). 
> I believe it's better for me to learn XSL FO rather than GDA api for
> reports, as I could use it in other projects. Also, you said nobody
> seems to use Gda Reports yet.
> 
nobody uses them because they are not finished. If you see things
missing, we would love to hear what those things are, so that we can fix
them.

> > > The only disadvantage is that there's no integrated Gnome solutions to
> > > make PDF out of FO, will have to use FOP for that.
> > >
> > well, we would add it then, we might need to add support for printing to
> > PDF in gnome-print. That should make it I guess.
> it could generate PDF out of a FO file or GDA report?
>
I'm not sure of the details, we should ask gnome-print people, but then,
that's the idea, yes.

You would print the report to a PDF virtual printer, which would
generate the PDF document from the report.

cheers