a2ps is a great program for making plain old text look
decent. I think it will also accept latex or
postscript, which you could embed with Perl. Search
"a2ps" on freshmeat.net.
--- "Samuel A. Mullen" <smullen@oppunl.com> wrote:
> I know I can use perl. I already do, but sometimes
> you want your
> reports to look a little cleaner than just plain old
> text. I know I
> could probably throw in some LaTeX or Groff, but I
> kinda wanted
> something a bit more user-friendly, I would also
> like something to
> develop complex reports.
>
> As far as that little MS Access comment goes. It
> took me a long time to
> find a job where I just use Linux, I don't want to
> regress to Windows.
> :)
>
> Sam
>
> "Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 9 May 2000, Samuel A. Mullen wrote:
> >
> > > Are there any tools for generating reports for
> Postgres? I searched
> > > RedHat, Enterprise Linux, the HOWTO, and haven't
> found anything.
> >
> > http://www.perl.com :-)
> >
> > I think pgAccess has some report printing
> faciliites as well. You can
> > always connect to PostgreSQL via MS-Access and
> generate reports out of
> > that also.
> >
> > Brett W. McCoy
> >
> http://www.chapelperilous.net
> >
>
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