Re: Report generation

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> >   I've been doing a lot of playing and learning with postgres, and if the
> > subject of report generation is in either the distribution docs or either of
> > the two books I've read, I cannot recall seeing the discussion.
> >
> >   What are my options for getting reports from a database, particularly for
> > printing?

We are using a combination of perl and latex for generating high quality
paper output. Advantages of latex

- the perfectly layouted output and
- several target-formats (Postscript, pdf or even html).

And of course it's open source.

Regards Herbie
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