Richard Hayes <[email protected]> writes:
> I have a need to create approximately 100 reports each about 40 pages
> long.
>
> They all very similar with large sections of prewritten text (ie
> boilerplate) and a very specific format.
>
> All the reports are similar to a "Building Application" you submit to
> the local council.
>
> What free content management system / document management system or
> other should I look at?
Well, if it were me, and I wanted to produce impressive documents,
I would pick up TeX, and specifically ConTeXt. You could then fairly
trivially build the fixed and variable sections, batch-run the documents
and produce very high quality PDF output.
OTOH, you didn't tell us much about what tools you have, what format the
data is already in, or what format the output needs to end up as.
(actually, given the volume, or if you need colour separations for
professional printing, or anything else.)
Finally, you didn't tell us what you want to happen here: write them and
send them off, never to hear about them again? Do this routinely?
Do you need to track lifecycle of the document, with approvals and
revisions? Is that going to be worked on by non-technical people?
Regards,
Daniel
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