By drupalnesia on

I have create complex form using CCK but then I need any Reporting Tools (freeware or commercial) that can help me to print complex form including:
- barcode
- good precision, because I need to print on Preprinted Form
- member image/photo
- the reporting can print to PDF
- better if can create Microsoft XLS or DOC file

Any suggestion which product can I use?

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bwv’s picture

bwv commented

Is this a matter solely of printing the page that is created? If so, might the printer friendly module work?
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cayenne commented

I would like to tackle this too.
I have built a revised events reservation module (will share as soon as I generalize it) and would like to print tickets directly from the site. It seems that a .pdf generator is the way to go. I looked at one drupal module that makes ID's, which seems to be in the right direction, but requires, sigh, yet another learning of another system.

Is there a lazy man's path to pdf?

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drupalnesia’s picture

drupalnesia commented

By default PHP has builtin support to create PDF file. This is a VERY VERY good step by step how to create PDF file: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/PDF-Generation-With-PHP/ by Icarus.

But I need more simple tool, because default PHP use x,y position manually. A WYSWIG tool will make it simple like Crystal Report in VB .Net. Also I need to print barcode-number to barcode-image.

Now, I just download PHP Report Maker from http://www.hkvstore.com/phpreportmaker/ and see if this tool will help us to built complex report with easy.

splash112’s picture

splash112 commented

You might want to take a look at:
http://drupal.org/project/PDF-IDcard
http://drupal.org/node/169394

It prints out pdf files, which are probably better suited for your precision needs than XLS or DOC. It uses the TCPDF library which has some barcode functionalities.

good luck!

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emathy commented

Hey there!

How did the eval of PHP Report Maker go? I am kinda curious about that one myself.

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