Ask HN: What do you use for PDF reports these days?

Re:Ask HN: What do you use for PDF reports these days? by Aheinemann on Saturday October 11, 2014 @09:30PM (#8443989)

For Reports with lots of tables and mathematics: generate LaTeX file -> PDFTEX to PDF using MiKTeX

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for PDF reports these days? by pjungwir on Saturday October 11, 2014 @11:24PM (#8444233)

I use this for invoices in my homegrown invoicing system. I also have a script for generating PDF & HTML versions of my resume from the source data, and the PDF version goes through LaTeX. If you're using Ruby, prawn is a nice solution also, but my favorite is going via LaTeX.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for PDF reports these days? by mcpherrinm on Saturday October 11, 2014 @10:54PM (#8444150)

Even without math, LaTeX is a pretty nice way to generate documents. Especially with TikZ, you can get really nice autogenerated figures too.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for PDF reports these days? by yen223 on Sunday October 12, 2014 @12:01AM (#8444322)

Agreed. LaTeX is the best (well, least-worst) report generating system, mostly because of its extensive ecosystem. It's well-supported in multiple languages, and there are packages for just about everything.

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