Your question is not really specific. Please provide more information, e.g.: do you have to create just one type of report, a class of similar reports, reports of varying formats, etc.
Until then, I can just answer: Yes, there definitely is a system out there that you should consider ;-)
Cheers, CombatSquirrel.
Entropy is the tendency of everything going to hell.
Comment on Re: Avoiding reinventing the wheel: report generation systems?
Apologies for a vague specification. Desired features:
Several (10+) different types of reports
Common graphic design
Reports are static -- not interactive CGI apps.
Reports contain both text and tables and figures. Some text is stock, others are templated.
Reports are rendered for different media: html for intranet (one page with internal links), for paper (pdf with sensible page breaks), et.
Here's an example of a templated section, written in psuedo TT2 code ...
## PSUEDO CODE
"Parsing [% num_major_files %] files generated a total
of [% num_major_incidents %] incidents, falling into
[% num_classes %] classes. Table [% an autogenerated
table number would go here %] presents the top 10
incident categories. Note that [% top_incident_class %]
comprises [% top_fract %] of the cases ....
I couldn't find any module on CPAN that seems to do what you need. The modules you suggest seem reasonable, though. Also have a look at Chart::Base for generating diagrams, though. And good luck with this one.
Cheers, CombatSquirrel.
Entropy is the tendency of everything going to hell.