Re: When will the IBM i community adopt HTML for reporting? -- MIDRANGE-L

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The thing about HTML is that good WYSIWYG tools are available for layout,
including images, graphs, and styling. And there are utilities like PD4ML
and others which run under IBM i and transform HTML into PDF.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 5:22 PM, James H. H. Lampert <
jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/21/15 1:20 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

With all the travails that developers seem to go through to implement
overlays and advanced function printing, it makes me wonder how long
before
shops might move to HTML for reporting?

HTML isn't for reports, any more than it's for email.

HTML is for web pages. Period. It's designed to be flexible in adapting to
a wide variety of rendering technologies, NOT to produce consistent
appearance across all of those technologies.

That's what PDFs are for.

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JHHL

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