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