[Gambas-user] Report Preview

[Rizky Tahara Shita]

At 23:50 16/07/2004, Rob wrote:
>On Friday 16 July 2004 00:36, Budi Arief Gusandi wrote:
> > Just trying mozilla on my mandrake 10 (nothing fancy ;(...,
> > but hey the preint preview of mozilla is really kewl. Anybody
> > can get the code of the preview and plug it into gambas as
> > component ? that would be good if we make a report via HTML
> > and displayed on it...
>
>I don't think HTML is suitable for reports because (as far as I
>know) there is no tag to force a page break, for example.  That
>would be kind of important for printed reports since you need
>things like a page header and footer on each page.
>
>I could see generating an OpenOffice file somehow, or using the
>KDE reporting engine (maybe GNOME has one too?) or maybe even
>finding some way to subclass khtml to add the reporting features
>we needed, but I think the best solution is to use or make an
>engine more oriented towards print output than displaying on
>screen.

i agree with that... :)