On 12 Nov 2004, at 20:04, Ron Thomas wrote:
What do most people use for a report designer for linux? I need to design a report similar to a
phone book directory, ie, multi-column with page breaks when the first letter of the field changes.
use perl;
Something like DBI will talk to the MySQL database to pull out the raw name/address/number data.
Something like PDF will build the pages for you and export it into something fixed and portable :
http://www.enstimac.fr/Perl/perl5.6.1/site_perl/5.6.1/PDF.html
Hope this helps, Andy
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