Re: Suggestions for a report generator

[Carl Nygard <cjnygard fast net>]

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 01:31, Daniel Kasak wrote:
> Now that I have enough data entry forms, I have to deal with *one* 
> printable report.
> It's for management. It has to look decent.
>
> My first idea was to use PHP or Perl to render the pages via a web 
> server, and put some page breaks in with CSS. It's dodgy but it works 
> and it's simple. The only issue I have with this is that it's "external" 
> to the app, ie the user has to open Mozilla ( or I suppose I could 
> trigger Mozilla and open to a CGI page or something ).

if [ ! `mozilla -remote ping()` ]
then
        mozilla -remote openURL(javascript:focus())
fi
mozilla /whatever/file &


> I'm also aware of some report generator packages around, but I'm really 
> just trying to keep things simple - for the moment - so I can get what's 
> been done on a desktop and tested, and maybe move onto a full-featured 
> solution later.
>
> Any ideas?

man perlform

Or generating postscript is not that hard once you have the boilerplate.

Regards,
Carl