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From:
Shlomi Fish
Date:
August 30, 2009 01:58
Subject:
Re: PDF generation from a database!!
Message ID:
200908301157.57509.shlomif@iglu.org.il
On Sunday 30 August 2009 06:18:10 ficovh wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I need ideas, suggest for generating a report in .pdf  from a data
> containing in a MySQL database.
> Basically, the idea is putting information from many tables in a
> simple concentrate report. I want tutos, or simple scripts
> for doing this task.
>
> Thank you for reading this mail.
>

In addition to what ficovh said, one option is perhaps to generate a file in 
an intermediate format such as POD, HTML, LaTeX, DocBook/XML, or one of them 
lightweight markup languages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lightweight_markup_languages

And then convert that to PDF using a processor. Generating them should be 
easier than generating PDF, but the entire process may be slower.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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