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Re: Postgres Tool Question

Webb Sprague <wsprague100@yahoo.com> — 2000-05-09T16:09:19Z

a2ps is a great program for making plain old text look
decent.  I think it will also accept latex or
postscript, which you could embed with Perl.  Search
"a2ps" on freshmeat.net.

--- "Samuel A. Mullen" <smullen@oppunl.com> wrote:
> I know I can use perl.  I already do, but sometimes
> you want your
> reports to look a little cleaner than just plain old
> text.  I know I
> could probably throw in some LaTeX or Groff, but I
> kinda wanted
> something a bit more user-friendly, I would also
> like something to
> develop complex reports.
> 
> As far as that little MS Access comment goes.  It
> took me a long time to
> find a job where I just use Linux, I don't want to
> regress to Windows. 
> :)
> 
> Sam
> 
> "Brett W. McCoy" wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 9 May 2000, Samuel A. Mullen wrote:
> > 
> > > Are there any tools for generating reports for
> Postgres?  I searched
> > > RedHat, Enterprise Linux, the HOWTO, and haven't
> found anything.
> > 
> > http://www.perl.com :-)
> > 
> > I think pgAccess has some report printing
> faciliites as well.  You can
> > always connect to PostgreSQL via MS-Access and
> generate reports out of
> > that also.
> > 
> > Brett W. McCoy
> >                                              
> http://www.chapelperilous.net
> >
>
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