My first idea was to generate a pdf and print this.

Did you look into anything else? Plain text? HTML? Excel? or another spreadheet?

Is there an easier way?

Always ;-)

You will need to be a trifle more forthcoming with information. Some databases, e.g., Oracle, have report-generating features. These may be adequate. What operating system? Is the output of a plain text file adequate? If so, format may be adequate.

There are several modules for creating PDF (see PDF); I'd tend to use PDF::API2 or PDF::CreateSimple.

However, my preference would be to generate HTML. This is for a couple of reasons, one is that if this is only going to be done once or twice, it may be easier to fix minor errors by directly editing the HTML, instead of editing the program, re-running the report generation, etc.

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Information about American English usage here and here.

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In reply to Re: Producing Nice Prints by swampyankee
in thread Producing Nice Prints by Ben Win Lue

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