Labview distributable application with professional data reporting

[sciawatt]

Hi there,

I'm searching for the right approach to solve the issue I'm facing using the standard report generation VIs in Labview.

Even if the report is a quite simple ensemble of text / charts / tables, the report output is very poor quality. Exporting into excel / word isn't a good solution since the distributable has to be installed onto customers PC, and having Office installed isn't under my direct control... and this is a good things...

I've tested Diadem and the report output is good, but having 1000€ additional license on each customers PC just to have a PDF printed isn't a clever approach.

Could Crystal Report be a solution?

Any other suggestion well accepted...

Thanks

[J-M · Accepted solution]

You also have (2, 3 and 4 - 1 was deleted):

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/exporting-graphs-programmatically-to-pdf/m-p/1276154#M531872%EF%BB%B...

[sciawatt]

Hy JM,

Thanks, I'll give a try during Christmas vacation, thank you.

Anybody knows if Crystal Report is a viable solution?

Thanks

[sciawatt]

Dear Jean Marc,

I tested your Exaprom PDF toolkit and so far it does everything I need... Excellent!

Many many thanks .

[Blocka04]

Hi Jean Marc,

Thanks very much for your pdf application that I find very interesting.  I tried to use it, but being a newbee to pdf I couldn't get your program to do what I need.

Do you have a simple example about how to print an excel table to a pdf file without any complicated stuff around it.  It would also be ok to just print a simple labview table to a pdf file.

Your help will be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.