Tiny Report 0.9 review

Tiny Report is a free software that helps you to Design, Manage, and Deliver Reports for Extreme Business Insight. It simply autom

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Tiny Report is a free software that helps you to Design, Manage, and Deliver Reports for Extreme Business Insight.

It simply automates to production of dynamic PDFs. It allows you to design your templates in OpenOffice.

Here are some key features of "Tiny Report":
The process

Design your .SXW fie in OpenOffice,
Use tiny_sxw2rml.py to convert the file in a .RML template,
Use tiny_report.py to produce PDF file using any database.

Report Designer

The report designer used is OpenOffice. All styles, tags and features of OpenOffice documents (.SXW) are implemented instead frames.
No specific language to learn,
Support style, colors, table, section, items, images, ...
OpenOffice is not needed to render the PDF

Data Acquisition

Support python expressions for effective computation,
Browse through table with the object relationnal mapping,
You do not have to code the database structure (introspection on the DB),
You can create your own object and functions
Lots of databases supported: MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Firebird, SybaseConnection, MAX DB
Support all links between tables (one2many, many2one, ...),
Lots of special features using simple Python: group, sort.

Report Renderer

Fast, simple and easy,
Standalone to be included in other applications.