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 usercs_dba@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..