Hello people, I have good news :)
I've done today the new website of Geraldo Reports [1]. Geraldo is a tool to make business reports easy, that not necessarily will be PDF files. For a while it just supports PDF and TXT (for file and matrix printers), but in the future it will supports HTML, ODF, DOC, XLS, and whatever. It uses the power of ReportLab to make PDF files and uses also some things from its library. Geraldo doesn't competes with ReportLab, it is just more like Jasper or Crystal Reports, ok? The new website is more like a redesign of the old one, but we want to have cook book, code snippets and report templates repositories as soon as possible. We are near to announce the release 0.4 (maybe in 1 or 2 weeks), with the main features: - Caching - Additional fonts - Events system - "Native" charts (using ReportLab functions instead of third part libraries) - Cross reference tables - Bar codes - bugs fixes Most of these features are already available [2] on the git/svn repositories [3] and [4] and I'm using them on some projects. Another important information: I recently knew about a project named "django-reporting" [5], that makes summaries on the Admin (with no printing). It is a good tool but a customer mine would like print those summaries to PDF, so, I made some improvements on it to do it (and sent a patch). I'm trying to make contact the author to make this easier. The problem: Geraldo already had in their repositories a Django app to integrate Geraldo with Django's Admin. Solution: I probably will change the name of Geraldo's "reporting", do some newness I have on my machine, etc. But, to avoid confusion: django-reporting and Geraldo's "reporting" are separated things and have different goals. In the future, Geraldo will have the Reports Server, probably a pluggable app or a Tornado service (I'm not sure about that), to serve reports like a BI framework. It will get data from database connection (with SQL instructions) or NoSQL accessing or, at least, receive data as a webservice, and generate reports. The main goal is take easy the integration with other languages and take easy for end users. The ideas are in my mind, but will late a little. That's all. Help is very very welcome, whatever you can do to help. Best regards, speak soon :) [1] http://www.geraldoreports.org/ [2] http://www.geraldoreports.org/docs/examples/index.html [3] http://www.geraldoreports.org/docs/examples/index.html [4] http://geraldo.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geraldo/ [5] http://code.google.com/p/django-reporting/ -- Marinho Brandão (José Mário) http://marinhobrandao.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.