[pro] Professional Reports

[Jan Tolenaar]

On 19/05/2011 08:11, Nico de Jager wrote:
> I am looking for tips to create professional multi-page reports,
> invoices, etc, preferably producing standalone files like PDFs that can
> be emailed. Automatic page calculation would be great, and I'd like to
> include generated and static images (e.g. graphs and logos).
>
> The solution does not have to be open source, although most of my
> applications are web based for which I do prefer GNU Linux as a hosting
> platform (I am a LispWorks user and have both Linux and Windows
> licenses).
>
> I know about cl-pdf and cl-typesetting, although I have only had a
> fleeting glance at them. Maybe there is an easy WYSIWYG layout editor
> that a list member can recommend among the hordes that Google spits
> out.
>
> How do list members typically solve this (boring) problem with their CL
> applications?
>
> Regards.
> Nico
>
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  I have used cl-pdf and cl-typesetting in a commercial web application 
but only for small stuff and I do not recommend it for large reports 
with multi-page tables and so. You do not want to become a pixel 
counter. I prefer using LaTeX now. Used it with MixTex in a C# project. 
Generate a LaTeX source file, run it through xelatex a couple of times 
and you are done. In Lisp it should be even better because you can write 
some nice macros to hide your LaTex macros.

-Jan