Harry Ohlsen wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>
>
I have used this to generate letters automatically from a servelet
front-end to
a database. It works really well, except you need to prevent the data
being entered
that crashes pdflatex. The output is excellent however.
Richard Piper
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