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Witek
Witek

Reputation: 6462

Examples for good looking PDF reports

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?

I am looking for already created PDFs to look at for inspiration. I am not looking for a report framework.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2965

Answers (3)

Jimbo
Jimbo

Reputation: 22964

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

Upvotes: 0

RaelG
RaelG

Reputation: 173

If you are using Java, Dynamic Jasper generates good looking reports out of the box

http://dynamicjasper.sourceforge.net/

Upvotes: 0

Burbas
Burbas

Reputation: 803

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

Upvotes: 3

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