Re: [FRIAM] Web meets Print

2013-05-12 Thread Brent Auble
sed it yet, but I make sure to install the components every time I update Eclipse, just in case I get inspired to do some Java-based DB reporting...  Brent From: Saul Caganoff To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 7:

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

Re: [FRIAM] Web meets Print

2013-05-11 Thread Marcus G. Daniels
On 5/11/13 9:22 AM, Robert J. Cordingley wrote: I want to server-side generate a report from a database, automatically paginate it and prepare a table of contents ready for printing. I'm scripting in PHP against a MySQL database. I already generate the report in HTML/CSS for presentation on a

[FRIAM] Web meets Print

2013-05-11 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
There seem to be frustratingly few resources and tools to help with what seems like a relatively simple and common word processing need. I want to server-side generate a report from a database, automatically paginate it and prepare a table of contents ready for printing. I'm scripting in PHP