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DataVision is an Open Source database reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports. Reports can be viewed and printed from the application or output as HTML, LaTeX2e, XML, DocBook, or tab- or comma-delimited text files. The output files produced by LaTeX2e and DocBook can in turn be used to produce PDF, text, HTML, PostScript, and more.
Report descriptions are stored as XML files. This means you can not only use the DataVision GUI, but you may also edit reports using your favorite text editor.
DataVision is written in Java. It runs under Linux, Windows, various flavors of BSD and Unix, and Mac OS X. It can generate reports from Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Informix, hsqldb, Microsoft Access, and any other database with available JDBC drivers.
DataVision is developed and maintained by Jim Menard (jimm@io.com). The latest version of DataVision can be found on the official DataVision Web page. New releases are also announced on Freshmeat and on the DataVision mailing list.
Here is the summary of the major changes in version 0.5.2. For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file.
File and directory names are printed using a monospace font.
Text that will be substituted with a user-defined value is printed using italics.
GUI menu names are printed using a
and menu items are printed using . For example, "select from the menu to open an existing report".The name "Unix" is used to refer to all Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, BSD, and Mac OS X. The name "Windows" is used to refer to all flavors of that operating system that can run DataVision (95, 98, NT, 2000, and XP, as far as I know.)
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