From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 9:10:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com (pc1-dale5-0-cust136.not.cable.ntl.com [80.1.76.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 32EEE37B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:10:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 96990 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2002 17:10:03 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO matt.thebigchoice.com) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 28 Jan 2002 17:10:03 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:10:02 +0000 From: Matt H To: "David S. Jackson" 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:47:23 -0500 "David S. Jackson" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message