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Greg
Greg

Reputation: 47124

Birt - How to Make Attractive Reports

I made my first Birt report and it looks hideous!

I'm wondering if there are premade themes/templates that I can base reports off of that will do some basic niceties like alternating row colors, attractive background colors, space out the elements, center things, etc?

Or do Birt users just live with ugly reports? Please help, I really like the system otherwise.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4732

Answers (1)

Tom Seidel
Tom Seidel

Reputation: 9535

This question is a bit hard to answer...

Well, a programmer does not design things (programmers do ugly reports, websites, etc). Let a webdesigner create a cool template (a html page with css and all color-codes) and take this as base for your report. From my experience it's very easy to create nice BIRT reports with a template. For alternating the rowcolor, see BIRT: Alternating row Color in a table group

I guess this is probably not a very satisfying answer...

EDIT: A time ago I've writtenan example regarding this topic. An example of this procedure (including example template+birt report) can be found here

Upvotes: 3

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