How can I represent data in a WYSIWYG format without using Crystal Reports?

Question

I am searching a way to print data in tablesw with text and images, in a WYSIWYG, nice and good looking way.

So far I have: header + images + web-like decorations + arabic labels & values + data in dataset (xml) + I need to give a way for buisness analysts to change the output layout.

Crystal Report does all of this. But I don't like Crystal Reports.

Is there a good print technology?

Does anyone have any ideas for something to do: Dataset->xml->html with xslt?

Answer 1

Not sure about your database you are using, but there is always SQL Server Reporting Services. I tend to like it a lot more than Crystal Reports.

Edit: I would like to add that Reporting Services does in fact have a full GUI for development (Visual Studio), and it allows for exporting of reports into many different formats such as Word, Excel, PDF, HTML, etc.