Fastreport as replacement for LaTeX
Hi
We currently have a printing mechanism running on Ubuntu that uses LaTeX templates and structured data to generate PDF files.
All works fine but there is a big requirement for WYSIWYG editors where clients can maintain templates themselves.
I'm now looking at FastReport as a possible solution with a designer component (Online Designer?) and a report (PDF) generating component.
This implies having a executable that:
- runs on Ubuntu
- preferrably does not require a connection to the DB
- takes as arguments (either by specifying the path to file location OR directing (PIPE) data into the app):
1) the template (fr3 file)
2) the data in some kind of structured format (typically JSON)
Is this at all possible with FastReport ? Which of the products should we be looking at ?
Any thoughts or comments will be appreciated.
P.S. We have some experience using FastReport VCL with Delphi XE5 where we provided a customizable PDF report solutions to customers in a Win32 application.
Regards
gmb