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Hey Guys, I've used PowerDesigner on several occasions and have been very happy with it in comparison to ERwin. I was thinking of buying a 'Single Seat' license but I couldn't find any information comparing the features/benefits of version 9 and 12 - both of which are offered by Sybase at the...

Thanks guys. I can't believe every other language (Java, VB, C++, etc..) has a suite of commercial and free report writer software. Stuff that behaves like Crystal Report for example. You drag objects into a workspace and create a report template. Hmmm... sounds like a good project for...

Andrew, Lol, I was thinking along the lines: Division of anything by zero = infinity, so I thought you just meant a *very* long time. Sonny.

Thanks for all of the suggestion folks. Good options to investigate further. -perluserpengo: How did you format your generated HTML so that when it was sent to the printer the pagebreaks were nicely located? -PaulTeg: I spoke too quickly about Perl/Tk. It looks like I could 'draw' my report...

Hey 707, Try removing the HTML::TreeBuilder object from your code and just do a simple read and then write. Sonny.

Thanks for all of the replies folks. Andrew, seeing as you were once a dalek ... err, I mean lawyer :") could I beg your indulgence to view a recent version of the Artistic License and give us an informed verdict? http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/misc/Artistic.html

Ack... looks like Ghostscript (despite its name) is really for viewing postscript not for generating it. What I'm really looking for is a tool that I can use to configure about 6 canned reports. Each time I run a report the data that fills the report may be different but the format of the...

Thanks Paul, I'll look into Ghostscript. I'm working with Perl/Tk at the moment but I wasn't aware of any 'printer' widgets... Sonny.

Hey 707, Are you using any file disciplines to let PERL know the encoding that it is reading and the encoding it should generate the output as? PERL is pretty good at figuring that out the ecoding to use, but occassionally it can be confused. For good measure, try the following snippet if...

Hey Guys, Anyone have recommendations on how to generate nice printable reports? I have an existing VB app I would like to replace with PERL. My remaining issue is how to generate a WYSWIG screen preview and the associated printer output. Sonny.

Thanks Ishnid! I've just posted a question on DBI forum (from Tim Brunce's site) to see if I can get a definitive answer on how the Artistic License works. Thanks for the pointer. Sonny.

Hi Fellas, Does anyone know of a reliable commercial alternative to DBI? I'm developing a proprietary app that needs to make ODBC connections to a database. Sonny.

Hi Leland, I'm in a similar situation you were in with respect to using PERL to develop a proprietary app. I am interested in the responses to your posting in the "Information Technology Ethics in the Workplace Forum" but I couldn't find it.... My understanding is that if you link in any...

Good point. Thanks Chris. Sonny.

Hey Guys, I'm working with a html that has a navigation bar that I would like to pull out into another file and reuse. I've tried using server-side includes but I found that the onClick event don't seem to be able to cross page boundaries. That is the onclick event can only be captured by...