I have experience designing and developing sophisticated custom Windows-based and Web-based applications integrated with back-end databases and systems.
I am looking for a reporting tool that can generate finely detailed PDF documents. It needs to be able to use tiny fonts and have almost no margins; landscape orientation. I prefer an easy to use visual user interface. Part of the document wil...
Look for any reporting product that can do pixel level reporting. There are a number and a lot depends on the other features you might want such as does it need to come from a database product or driven out of an application via an API. The easiest to use are generally those that drive off SQL databases as they are the longest established. Even Microsoft's SSRS can do pixel level reporting and has a reasonable visual interface and is aimed at the technical report writer and with the right SQL Server license is probably free and lots of people use it. Not the greatest product but available expertise, established and reasonably stable. If you're not coming of SQL Server then you need to look at 3rd party reporting packages.
Jaspersoft - open source with commercial support model - has pixel-level reporting and will interface with most databases if you're trying to minimize $. All the mainstream products that do more corporate reporting have pixel-level reporting but they can be rather expensive. There are a million and one rats and mice reporting products that look reasonable but have poor market penetration and invariably die so try and avoid one of those.
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I am still using the two-week trial, but at first sight, the price is reasonable.
We only pay 14,000 pound a year for the licenses so it's a fairly cheap product.