Re: [FRIAM] Web meets Print

2013-05-12 Thread Brent Auble
You may want to look at BIRT (http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/).  It's a Java-based reporting engine built on Eclipse, and intended to take data from databases and produce reports.  "BIRT is an Eclipse-based open source reporting system for web applications, especially those based on Java an

[FRIAM] it had to happen

2013-05-12 Thread Roger Critchlow
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Re: [FRIAM] Web meets Print

2013-05-12 Thread Saul Caganoff
I've run into this problem twice in the last 12 months in ruby projects. I've dealt with it in two different ways: 1. Use the 'win32' library in ruby to write out to an MS Word document. In this case I did report generation followed by *ad hoc* (manual) edits and styling. I wouldn't recommend it b

Re: [FRIAM] Web meets Print

2013-05-12 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
Hey Marcus Thanks for the pointers which I will look at closely. So far, they indicate to me that this is not a trivial task! Robert C On 5/11/13 9:30 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: On 5/11/13 9:22 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: I want to server-side generate a report from a database, automat