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Does a wysiwyg editor for report lab's rml exist?

I've searched around for drag-and-drop editors which act similarly to MSAccess report builder but generates Report Markup Language™. However, I could not find any existing products.

Could it be true then that everyone hand codes the designs of their PDFs? Surely there must be a WYSIWYG editor somewhere.

Anyone know of any? It would help tremendously.

Note. Would there be any demand for one to be built?

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Jimle_uk Avatar asked Mar 09 '11 14:03

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Thanks to OpenERP tool sxw2rml , you can use Open Office writer as a WYSIWYG editor for RML . It takes old style Oowriter files and generates clean rml out of them which you can then manipulate .

Flow that works for me is

Oowriter [doc] ----> openerp_sxw2rml.py [rml] ----> trml2pf.py [pdf]

Links:

  1. Ref Links : http://doc.openerp.com/v6.0/developer/3_11_reports/11_1_openoffice_report.html
  2. Older code of sw2rml.py can be found here http://dev.communesplone.org/trac/browser/communesplone/openerp/training/training/report/tiny_sxw2rml/tiny_sxw2rml.py?rev=3486
  3. For latest version check openerp https://code.launchpad.net/~openerp/
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Shashank Singh Avatar answered Sep 20 '22 08:09

Shashank Singh