"Joel DaBona" <jo**@dabona.comwrote in message
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PS wrote:
>What format does the output need to be in? Would you consider PDF?
Hi PS,
PDF is OK, but i would be nice the output could also be formats like doc
and HTML.
I use a PDF and an Excel library for all my reports. I really don't think of
them as reports per se, just a means of outputting my object graph without
being tied down to the tabular / rowset mindset that report components tend
to force you into. There is more initial work at the beginning as you have
to handle the built in functions that reporting components provide "out of
the box" like grouping/page breaking/sub reports. The advantages I have
found are speed and total layout control. Some of the reports I create would
be impossible to do with a reporting component without a lot of complicated
scripting etc. I use a PDF control by Cete called Dynamic PDF. There is a
product by Amyuni that outputs PDF as well as RTF, HTML and Excel using the
same interface that you could look at. (amyuni.com)
PS
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Regards,
Joel