On 31 Jan 2005, at 23:37, Mike Lesser wrote: >I want to crunch up some data from either text files or a MySQL database, and >make attractive output. It's mostly boxes and plain text, like a chart.
If it's charts in the sense of plotting data have a look at SVG, yet another Adobe format. Its scaleable vector graphics are drawn by an engine freely downloadable for a lot of platforms. The format is TEXT much like uncompressed PDF and is easily created with perl. -- --> The best programming tool is a soldering iron <--
