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1 Introduction

DataVision is a database reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports. Reports can be viewed and printed from the application or output as HTML, LATEX2e, XML, DocBook, or tab- or comma-delimited text files. The output files produced by LATEX2e and DocBook can in turn be used to produce PDF, text, HTML, PostScript, and more.

Report descriptions are stored as XML files. Any text editor may be used to create or edit these files, not just the DataVision GUI.

DataVision is developed and maintained by Jim Menard (jimm@io.com). The latest version of DataVision can be found on the official DataVision Web page. New releases are also announced on Freshmeat.

1.1 Recent Changes

Here is the summary of the major changes in version 0.2.0. For a complete list of changes, see the ChangeLog file.

1.2 Conventions

File and directory names are printed using a monospace font.

Text that will be substituted with a user-defined value is printed using italics.

GUI menu names are printed using a bold font and menu items are printed using italics. For example, ``select Open from the File menu to open an existing report''.

The name ``Unix'' is used to refer to all Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, BSD, and MacOS X.


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Jim Menard 2002-04-18