[libreoffice-users] Re: Poor formatting and extremely slow performance

Am 11.02.2011 16:32, Eric Marx wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
>
> My company uses documents exported out of Crystal Reports from a vendor. One
> particular document which has been in use for years formats and performs
> adequately in Microsoft Office but formats poorly and causes Libre Office to
> lock up while scrolling, resizing, editing or pretty much just looking at
> it.

It is quite likely that Crystal has some difficulties to produce perfect 
Word documents. By mere intention, Word is the one and only program to 
do this trick perfectly.

LibreOffice Base can do the same as Crystal Reports. It can connect to a 
wide variety of databases and create reports as Writer documents or Calc 
documents. Once you have established such a database connection you can 
access the tables (or subsets of tables) in any of your office documents.
Simply hit F4 and drag any icon, column or row(s) of the "Bibliography" 
into any office document.

Reportedly, the Report Builder Extension works with LibreOffice as well 
as with OpenOffice.org: 
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/reportdesign
Based on a third-party report engine it can create fairly professional 
reports, including page levels, charts and database pictures.

Hope this helps,
Andreas Säger


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