While A4GL is making a solid and fast job on your application server and users enter data via the comfortable GUI, you can get state of the art documents and reports.

A4GL offers native support for PDF based reporting which you can use also for sophisticated outputs and designs.
Graphics or barcode can be integrated in your printouts.

Also standard reports could be created:

In addition to that, VENTAS offers a template based generation of documents and reports.
The integration of Open Office makes it easy for your customers to define how their output should look like.

This allows your customers a great improvement of flexibility.
No programming know-how is needed for them to design their own documents and reports.

They define a normal text document or a calculation sheet as a template by using predefined variables. During runtime we convert these variables in real content, producing a file which includes all the design that was defined by the user and which contains the selected data.

This is an example of a template for a quotation document and
another example of a generated document based on a template: