Re: free reports tool

> you can say which the tools that you uses with Cobol to generate reports.

JetForm was one of them. It was a Windows 3.1 designer and a DOS merge
program. I have subsequently written my own merge program for
Postscript files. The PS forms are designed using a free Linux program
(Impress but not the OOo one). The merge uses Jetform merge format for
the data so the Cobol writes out the same data.

In fact I mostly use text templates for outputs so the program has no
idea what the actual output is. It might be just a text form, or HTML,
or XML, or EDIFACT, or a Jetform data file that is then used to merge
into a graphical form.

I have also added libPS (Postscript routines) into my templating code
and this then processes the template by calling the PS routines to
generate the form directly.

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