Help! Building Reports Server-Side

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mistro_uk
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Help! Building Reports Server-Side

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I've been programming an Information System and have come to a bit of a halt where reporting is concerned.

Essentially there is a need to create MS Office (or alternative) spreadsheets and docs with full control over simplest of things (page orientation for example, something of a known difficulty using standard web technologies). However the server hosting our appplication is Red Hat Enterprise driven, so it knocks COM and Office off the stage already. What i wanted to know is whether anyone has developed server-side reporting of any kind that isn't using COM and Office or plain .CSV files and basic web pages, and what approach they used

Obviously using Red Hat opens the doors to Open Office etc so alternatives to MS Office in the solution is accetable.

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Mark
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PEAR's Excel Writer? Generating PDF files?
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Ollie Saunders
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Aren't the new incarnations of Office XML driven now?
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There are quite a few tools out there that do what you want to do, if you search hard enough.
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