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Posted by champ.supernova on 03/15/07 08:05
A quick update...someone has suggested trying ASP.NET Reports, which
may give a bit more flexibility. However ideally I still need a
dedicated print publishing tool such as Publisher, but that can handle
HTML tags in Catalog Merge.
Thanks again if anyone can offer any help.
On 14 Mar, 13:27, champ.supern...@gmail.com wrote:
> I don't know if this is the best group to be asking this in, but there
> didn't seem to be a more obvious one unfortunately!
>
> I have developed a 'product catalog' style web page, that is populated
> from a back-end SQL Server database. All the display text stored in
> the db is HTML-formatted.
>
> Does anybody know of any publishing application similar to Publisher
> or PageMaker, that would allow me to do a Catalog Merge / data merge
> style operation to output the db records in a printed catalog style,
> but somehow apply the HTML formatting in the published version?
> Publisher can't handle HTML tags and just outputs them as text.
> Ideally I'd like to find something that allows the records to be
> filtered and sorted easily.
>
> Many, many thanks indeed for any advice...
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