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Date:      Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:10:02 +0000
From:      Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To:        "David S. Jackson" <deepbsd@earthlink.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: printing camera-ready mysql report
Message-ID:  <20020128171002.15d43569.matt@proweb.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20020128114723.I10374@sylvester.dsj.net>
References:  <20020128114723.I10374@sylvester.dsj.net>

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On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:47:23 -0500
"David S. Jackson" <deepbsd@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm just starting my first MySQL db, and I'm going to want to
> print out reports from it and produce a camera-ready document.
> Has anyone done this before, using, say, Star Office or AbiWord
> or something?  

I use reportlab which is a python add-on to produce PDF documents

other possibilities are troff or TeX to output Postscript

But, like you say, some word processors can take your ASCII output and
format it to your page sizes. This will be wysiwyg but potentially less portable.

M

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