I am creating PDF reports. I know some basics and try to make them simple. But still, they look ugly. I would like to see some good examples. Are there good looking reports on the web?
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If you'd like to write good looking reports you should probably look into LaTEX.
An example report, generated with LaTEX: http://maths.dur.ac.uk/Ug/projects/resources/latex/report/report.pdf
Burbas
2010-07-12 15:28:16
My reports contain a lot of key-value pairs and tables. Even with LaTeX I need examples to make it look good.
Witek
2010-07-14 08:22:27
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If you are using Java, Dynamic Jasper generates good looking reports out of the box
RaelG
2010-07-13 15:11:39
I have looked at the examples on http://dynamicjasper.sourceforge.net/docs/getting_started.html and those are rather ugly. Are there better ones somewhere?
Witek
2010-07-14 08:16:50
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See here example of web-reports + PDF. I forget good link to online demo of FastReport.Net - there is better.
Merl
2010-09-16 14:00:50
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There are many ways to create PDF reports depending on your application platform (desktop application, web application etc) Having done alot of both, the easiest and best ways I have listed below:
Web Applications - most essential is HTML-to-PDF creation, where you simply need to point the PDF generator at a URL and it converts it. Simple.
iTextSharp (.NET)(Open Source) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp
iText (Java)(Open Source) - http://itextpdf.com/
ABCPDF (.NET) - http://www.websupergoo.com
Desktop Applications - an easy interface make life much easier
DataDynamics ActiveReports (.Net) - http://www.datadynamics.com
Jimbo
2010-09-16 14:13:08
This is not the question. I have already chosen a framework for chreating reports. I am looking for good looking report designs.
Witek
2010-09-17 08:05:03