[Gambas-devel] A report tool query

Benoit Minisini gambas at ...1...
Sun Jan 29 18:54:10 CET 2006


On Sunday 29 January 2006 18:31, sumangala nair wrote:
>  Sir,
>    I almost completed a simple designer,with the controls of gambas
>  itself(with no exporting or anything of that sort)The properties have
> been
>  set by me.It was implemented using XSl stylesheet with minimal
>  formatting.It gives an html preview.
>
>    But my sir  Mr. Madhu V.T wanted a pdf output for the
> reports.Rather than
>  using the renderer of konqueror i've decided on using another
> technique by
>  using a pdf formatter tool.can u suggest any othe technique.Xsl-fo
> was a
>  technique to format the pages.But it is a bit tough since it doesn't
>  support html along with it.The formatter shows error on using
> html.Can u
>  suggest any other technique. sumangala K.nair
>
>

If you have HTML output, maybe you can ask a browser to print it for you in a 
postcript file (and then convert the ps to pdf).

Maybe you can generate an OpenOffice document (which is an XML format), and 
print the result?

Anyway, I think it won't be simple...

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini





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