Re: Report recommendations please

lose the training wheels and learn Crystal Reports or Reporting
Services.

a developer who works with databases that can't use one of those two
programs is close to worthless.

sorry; but I speak the truth.

I've been doing reporting for 10 years; I really like Reporting
Services... but I wish that they would make 'forms services' or
something similiar for data entry.

-Aaron






On Jan 29, 7:53 am, John Dann <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm writing a VB2005 program that needs to generate some printed
output, including a main table. At present I'm doing this output
simply as a text file, which works well enough to allow printing via
eg NotePad, but there are a couple of important refinements that I'd
like to add: one or more images per page and, ideally, some slightly
better control over the appearance of the output, ie use of colour,
different fonts etc.

Crucially, the structure and content of the output won't be known
until runtime.

My dilemma is that I want only somewhat better control over the output
than at present but I'd prefer not to spend many hours learning how to
do run-time design with one of the major reporting tools like Crystal
(which I know next to nothing about right now). But my impression is
that trying to control reasonably detailed printing using just the
native VB2005 commands is going to be a lengthy and time-consuming
approach also.

So, my question is whether there is any basic reporting control that
anyone can recommend that might be limited in its capabilities, but is
nonetheless suitable for run-time report definition?

(Ideally it would be good to have PDF output but this would be a
nice-to-have.)

.

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