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Re: [PLUG] High volume report printing
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Art Alexion wrote:
| Shank Chris wrote:
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|> We are looking at ways to create high volume reports for printing and
|> converting to PDF. Perl looks to be the logical choice for processing
|> the data. Our concern is how to create the report templates. We were
|> thinking that Adobe Acrobat writer may be able to do it. Does anyone
|> have any experience with creating a template - either PostScript of PDF?
|> I'd like something that would be easy for a user to create a template
|> with - so that a programmer isn't needed to create every template. Any
|> thoughts?
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|>
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| Chris,
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| I'm not sure what you mean by "high volume reports", nor whether this is
| a windows (reference to the Adobe Acrobat Writer) or Linux job, but why
| not have the users create the templates in a report writer that they are
| familiar with (e.g. Crystal, in windows) and just print to PDF? If you
| are really talking high volume, there are commercial document management
| systems that take care or naming, storing and retrieving the reports.
| Prices seem to be $10,000+.
Another thought would be to look at sql-ledger which is written in perl
and the output can be either ps, pdf, or html. sql-ledger uses latex
and latex-pdf for the templets for the post script and pdf output.
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