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Re: Creating HTML output from Informix 4GL Reports

Posted By: Joe Vigil
Date: Thursday, 17 May 2007, at 1:20 p.m.

In Response To: RE: Creating HTML output from Informix 4GL Reports (Mukherjee, Arindam)

Arindam,

An good alternative for HTML output (for emailing reports) is PDF
format. We use a free utility called "text2pdf" that's within the
pdflib-lite distribution:
http://www.pdflib.com/download/free-software/pdflib-lite/
We take text format reports and convert them to PDF (on the fly) for
emailing/viewing.

- Joe Vigil

Mukherjee, Arindam wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Thanks for the info. I will try out in this manner.
> Meantime,I came across one open-source called "Aubit 4Gl" which can be
> used as a plug-in to already installed Informix 4GL. This 4Gl have
> facilities to convert Informix 4GL reports to a specified type using
> some pre-defined layouts as visible from the following syntax :
>
> FINISH REPORT report-name CONVERTING TO "filename" AS "type" [ USING
> "layout" ]
>
> However it says that "type" can be any one of the conversions available
> on the system and these are in $AUBITDIR/lib called
> libLOGREPPROC_*.[so/dll]. As per the documentation on an average system
> you may have :
> libLOGREPPROC_CSV.so libLOGREPPROC_PDF.so libLOGREPPROC_TXT.so
>
> Does anyone who already used/using "Aubit 4GL" confirm whether there are
> any libraries available for HTML file types ?
>
> Thanks in advance !!!
>
> Regards,
>
> Arindam Mukherjee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of
> Priest, Darryl
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:44 PM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: RE: Creating HTML output from Informix 4GL Reports [9172]
>
> We had some similar output that we needed to make available on internal
> web sites. We saved the 4gl output as files and then wrote a Perl script
> to present the reports to the web. The script simply changes all
> control-L page breaks to "HTML page breaks" and wraps each page in <PRE>
> tags. It isn't elegant but it is very effective and required very little
> work to write and it was free.
>
> I'd suspect you could also write a generic Perl formatting program to
> re-format certain/most of your reports for HTML presentation quickly,
> without changing the 4gl reports themselves. It wouldn't be as visually
> pleasing as 're-writes' but it would be much faster.
>
> On the other hand, there are certainly for-pay solutions to what you are
> trying to do.
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of
> Mukherjee, Arindam
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:27 AM
> To: ids@iiug.org
> Subject: Creating HTML output from Informix 4GL Reports [9167]
>
> Hi All:
>
> I am working with Informix 4GL application which have lots of automated
> reports going out to customers. Presently, the report formats are plain
> character-based. My objective is to create reports in HTML formats using
>
> Informix 4GL report functionality. I have done that for one report by
> printing all HTML tags, colors etc in the 4GL report in different lines
> and creating a report with "html" extension. This html file can then be
> opened in any web browser for viewing. But this involves lot of coding
> from the developer's perspective. So I am looking forward for any kind
> of generic methodology/automated tool available which can be used along
> with my existing Informix 4GL on Solaris OS and that will help me to
> convert the existing Informix 4GL reports to create HTML outputs with
> minimum code changes.
>
> Thanks,
> Arindam Mukherjee
>
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Messages In This Thread

• RE: Creating HTML output from Informix 4GL Reports
  Mukherjee, Arindam -- Thursday, 17 May 2007, at 10:08 a.m.
  • Re: Creating HTML output from Informix 4GL Reports
    Joe Vigil -- Thursday, 17 May 2007, at 1:20 p.m.
  • Re: Creating HTML output from Informix 4GL Reports
    Mike Aubury -- Friday, 18 May 2007, at 9:04 a.m.

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