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From: ron@DRD.Com (Ron Madurski)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: RBase Reports Generator needed
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.210354.1516@DRD.Com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 21:03:54 GMT
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Organization: DRD Corporation
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Keywords:rbase,reports
Sender:ron@drd.com

We use Rbase to store daily operations data for the drilling industry.
We are in need of a package that will allow our software (ie., it must
be linkable with the rest of our software, written in C) to output
"pretty" reports.  We need the ability to draw lines, boxes, different
font sizes, shading (w/ and w/out text in shaded areas), compressed
print adjacent to normal print, the ability to do calculations would 
be helpful, and a host of other options, most of which are not
absolutely necessary but would be helpful.  One of the most important
aspects of the report generator should be easy manipulation of the
fields contained in the report, this is the current bottleneck in our
method.

I have found two packages that do what we want, to a certain extent.  One
called 4Real allows forms to be created, and easily linked into the
programs.  It does not do any of the fancy page formatting that we would
require.  The other package is called dbPublisher.  It sounds like it
will do what we need, but it is expensive.

Any comments suggestions or pointers to locations with more information
would be highly appreciated.

Thanks, 

ron@drd.com
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