On Monday 06 July 2009 12:32:19 pm Alan Bourke wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:51 -0700, "John" <jfabiani@yolo.com> wrote:

> > The only thing I'd like to see is better tools to create reports. I had

> > to

> > create a small app to generate test data for the XML's. Also the

> > ReportDesigner is not always stable.

>

> That's what I really mean I guess - an independent GUI-based report

> designer that will connect to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Firebird, couple

> others, maybe even MSSQL, producing portable report definition files

> that can probably rendered to PDF by a seperate renderer, which in turn

> can be leveraged by whatever language.

>

> I can't believe there aren't scads of them out there in Linux land

> already. Maybe they're too hard to write.

You might to take a look at Geraldo. It is trying to fill this niche.

http://geraldo.sourceforge.net/

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Adrian Klaver

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