Re: Database Publishing with AbiWord?

>
> Hello,
>
> does anyone do Database Publishing with AbiWord? How suitable is it for
> this
> kind of work?
>
> I.e. "building" long, strongly structured documents semi-automatically out
> of
> blocks of structured text that need to be formatted as well as lots of
> numbers ans short strings that need to be filtered and processed to be
> filled
> lots of page-long into human-readable tables, the textblocks, strings and
> numbers all being stored in a database for easy maintenance...
>

Hi Wolfgang,
            I wrote a python class that fills AbiWord tables with content
for my little budgeting program, called Divifund.

http://www.divifund.com/

It was quite easy, and the class is only about 100 lines of python (called
exportAbiWord.py in Divifund).

However I don't recommend AbiWord for documents with large tables (say
over a thousand rows). Unfortunately our table layout algorithim has a n^2
behaviour that shows up with Large Tables.

Cheers

Martin

> TIA,
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Wolfgang Keller
>
>
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Received on Wed Feb 1 01:58:33 2006