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What are you using to produce nice looking reports

Posted By: ROGER BURTON
Date: Tuesday, 9 September 2008, at 3:34 p.m.

Hello all,

I'm VERY NEW to this game - forgive me if I've slotted this in the wrong place, but it seemed the most appropriate option of those presented to me. I'm sure I'll hear about it if there is a better place.

I have used Informix-4GL (exclusively) to run the bulk of our operations and I would like to continue to follow this path. Until recently, the production of "documents" (Invoices, POs, Statements ...) was accomplished by running an Informix Report and invoking a "form" (created with a third-party bit of software that was stored as a "macro" on an HP printer) as an overlay. The static portion (a.k.a. the pretty portion) of the document being the Macro, and the data (the dynamic portion) being supplied by the Informix Report. It looks respectable; monochrome and a little plain, but respectable.

This has served us well for many years. However, this solution is becoming more and more difficult to support as the original (forms generation) software is becoming more and more antiquated [it came on 5 1/4" floppies - just to give you an idea]. Enough is enough, I said, time to re-evaluate. I further speculated that this (the IIUG site) would be a good mechanism to poll what others (YOU) are doing if you have a similar situation in YOUR environment. I'd like to know how others (you) are resolving this?

Resolving the aforementioned would be great, but if your solution also encompasses the conditional creation of a PDF file that can be e-mailed, that would make for a more complete solution. (And I'd look like a superstar around here.)

I am grateful for ALL input and I thank you in advance.

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