business forms, etc

[David Mandala]

Derek,

This sounds like a very interesting talk, might you be willing to do a
presentation to a few of us? I'd like to learn more.  Maybe a coffee
shop meeting?

Cheers,

Davidm

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:59, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> Mike Starke said:
> > I am in the process of setting up a small company
> > and trying to utilize Linux as the sole OS.
> >
> > This company is no differant than most others; they
> > need various types of business forms and documents. We have all of their
> > customer/clients loaded into a MySQL db along with
> > any associated customer info. What I am looking for is
> > a way/type of system to manage all of the forms.
> >
> > For instance, a business contract. Should a guy create
> > a LyX template, and a perl script or two to pull
> > customer data (name, address, etc) out of the db and
> > automatically generate a lyx document/contract? Is there a better
> > way? How about generating XML documents? I was thinking that
> > one could create a few style_sheets and dtd's and just
> > dynamically build them from the db and printed right
> > from a browser. Then I remembered that placing images
> > in xml documents (e.g company logo) is a nightmare
> > and almost defeats the purpose of xml in the 1st place.
> > Then again, is there anything wrong with good ole fashioned
> > Perl/CGI to generate html output?
> 
> I use GNUe Forms and GNUe Reports and it works great, but that is a biased
> opinion.  Basically make a document say in open office or abiword. 
> Anywhere you want "data" you put in a little tag.  Save the file.  Now you
> can run that report with "parameters" and viola it uses your mysql data to
> populate the form.  I would be willing to take time to show you how to do
> this personally free of charge if you are interested.
> 
> -Derek
> 
> 
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