[sclug] Form printouts from database

[Derek M Jones]

Peter,

> I'm wanting to create highly formatted output for printing (preferably 
> pdf) from a databas - e.g. invoices with logos and tables etc etc.  
> Previously I have used PHP and LaTeX for outputting printed reports from 
> a database but these have always been much more simple text based 
> documents.  Does anyone know a LaTeX package for doing more tightly 
> designed outputs?  Alternatively, is there any other way I can achieve 
> this?

What do you mean by tightly designed outputs?

For simple machine generated output I have always been a great
fan of groff.  TeX is much more powerful and good for hand tuning.

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