Depends on the languages you can work with and what level of control
you need
Jasperreports -
jasperforge.org is an appropriate solution in the Java world
BIRT -
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/ - also provides reporting
tools in the Java world
PHP offers bindings for PDFlib (not really cheap)
FPDF -
www.fpdf.org and TCPDF -
www.tcpdf.org are free PHP libraries for
producing PDFs
PK
On 9/30/2010 12:19 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:54 AM, list
user<cs_dba(a)consistentstate.com> wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> I'm looking for a way to generate a PDF report based on a set of data in a
> database and a set of pre-generated graphs via some sort of procedural
> method based on a template.
>
> We tried to do this via open office& it's templating features but this
> process requires us to first generate an odt file based on xml and then open
> the open office odt file and export to a PDF, unfortunately our first stab
> generated a 150GB odt file. This is of course an unacceptable method. So,
> I'm looking for a way to generate PDF's straight away as described above.
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
This was a thread in our local LUG:
http://www.flux.org/pipermail/linux/2009-April/021247.html
I use a similar process to generate a text file that gets passed
through a script to generate a PDF report..