Re: Report Generation

[Todd Fisher <toddf simosoftware com>]

Hubert Sokolowski wrote:

> Hi!
>
>  
>
> > hello
> >
> > I need to generate a report which will have images as well as some text
> > related to each image  in  a particular format. I also need to print the
> > report. Im not sure as to how to go about this problem. I was thinking of
> > maybe using GnomeCanvas but im not quite sure. Could someone please give
> > me
> > a few suggestions of how to go about.
> >
> >    
>
> the easiest way is to generate a html page an open it with some external
> browser. this approach is very portable.
>
> regards
> hs
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Or if you want to get fancy try embedding mozilla right in your app :-)

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/gtk-embedding.html

Then you could even use javascript to dynamically construct the report 
and it provides a pretty nice interface for printing.

It's also portable --> http://severna.homeip.net/gtkmozwin32.php
the win32 patch -->  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256560

-Todd