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rayherring
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XSLFast was what I used to use, started with v3, then v4, and finally v5. It isn't bad, however I did find it slow to work with (the whole program is built on java). To use it, you just need and xml file created from either a dataset or temptable and then you drag and drop xml fields, etc... Then you use ApacheFOP to take the xml file and the xsl-fo file that xslfast creates to generate a pdf file, the biggest issue I had with apache fop though was that it sometimes took up to 20 seconds to generate a pdf. These days however I do it all in html5 and css (using bootstrap 3), then i point wkhtmltopdf to a webspeed broker/agent to turn that into a pdf file, takes a second or so to generate the pdf 
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