[Rlib-devel] RFE Real national encodings, etc

[Zoltan B. <zb...@du...>]

Hi,

I came across this site: http://www.fpdf.org/
This stuff can also create PDFs but can also embed
fonts in given charsets in them. The whole stuff
is written in PHP and the license is freeware
for any (business or home) use so we could rewrite
it in C for RPDF.

Also, how about modifying RLIB and RPDF in such a way
that field width could be given in some metric units
and also be able to use proportional fonts?
I showed RLIB to some of my collegues and they said
the reports would be nicer if the font wouldn't be courier.
PDF provides 14 default fonts and also the embedded ones.

Also, it would be nice if the manual was more comprehensive.
I am just started using RLIB and the manual doesn't help too much.
I haven't used any reporting software before, so I am a real newbie
in this field. E.g. the manual doesn't document all internal variables,
I know totpages  exists because you discussed it on the mailing list.
It required a fair amount of experimenting to find out that
a sum of a field across all records needs to be in <ReportFooter>
to be displayed at the end and doesn't need any breaks.
It's logical but not documented. A dummies' guide for RLIB with many
examples, please! ;-)

Best regards,
Zolt=E1n B=F6sz=F6rm=E9nyi