This may help - I use 'htmldoc' from easysw.com to convert from HTML to
Postscript - it means I can write reports etc in HTML and them simply
convert them to GS and throw them at the printer. htmldoc adds a couple
of custom HTML tags which you can add to your HTML, including a page break
tag, which helps a lot.
regards,
P
On Mon,
26 Mar 2001, alvin wrote:
> Shankar Unni wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> > > I am wondering how most users generate reports from mysql that they
> > > can print on a laser printer (e.g. invoices)? [...] I guess some people
> > > user something like Crystal Reports via ODBC, but I wonder what most
> > > people do???
> >
> > Use Crystal Reports :-)? Depends on (a) how professional you need the
> > reports to be, and (b) how much you can afford..
> >
> > But more seriously, you *could* create a layout for "tbl" (part of GNU
> > "groff", available for all POSIX platforms and even NT via the cygwin port),
> > and generate output using that template:
> >
> > .TS H
> > page-header specs
> > .TH
> > other header specs.
> > header lines
> > body lines <<<-- generate this using MySQL
> > .TE
> >
> > And then run all this through "tbl" followed by "groff". Haven't tried this
> > myself in this particular combination, but having used tbl in the past, I
> > don't see any major conceptual problems with it. It's free, but needs some
> > elbow grease to get it to work..
> >
> > A "tbl" reference is at
> > http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software/troffcvt/tbl.html.
>
> This question strikes a chord with me also. I started looking to see if
> there is any Perl modules/Bundles/Packages for generating postscript
> reports.
> What I have found is fairly primative. Does anybody have any
> suggestions??
>
>
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