Howto: Make RML templates from Openoffice.org ODT files

mercoledì, 30 dicembre 2009

Report Markup Language (RML) is the ReportLAB and Open ERP format for pdf reports. It’s an XML format and it can be easy generated from web application, such as Django. Satchmo uses rml templates for shipping labels, invoices and packing slip.

One way to generate those templates it to write by hand the XML, with some difficult actions needed to generate tables and complex items.

Another easy way is to use OpenOffice.org to make the template. (continua…)