> > Has anyone used a report writer tool in a web development environment? I've
> > heard of crystal reports but not having used it I'm a bit dubious of it
> > being the answer to everything.
Depending on what your report writing tool can generate, you might be write
something to turn it into TeX or LaTeX, use tex or latex to turn that into
DVI and finally use dvipdf to generate a PDF file. If you can generate a
DVI file directly, so much the better and then just use dvipdf.
Actually, do you already have a report writer that you're using, or are you
looking for one? In the latter case, perhaps people could point you at
ones that can generate TeX / LaTeX / DVI.
I'm currently working on a GUI that generates LaTeX output, which I'm
turning into PDF and that seems to work very well. However, it obviously
depends on how complex the reports are that you want to generate as to
whether you could take on that work yourself.
Good luck finding something.
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