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Quarterly Keeping the GUI Responsive »  Writing ODF Files with
Qt  by Thomas Zander  The upcoming release of Qt 4.5 marks the
appearance of the QTextDocumentWriter class, making it possible
to create OpenDocument Format (ODF) files from any Qt text
document. This opens the door to automated document creation and
distribution in a standards-compliant format that users can open
in a wide variety of word processors.  A prime use case for
automated document creation is report generation. An example of
this is a store that performs periodic inventory checks and,
thus, needs to know if what the database thinks is on the
shelves actually reflects real life. Consider some software that
takes the database records and creates a readable document for
one day's worth of work. That document can then be exported to
ODF and sent to the person who does the work.  A pretty version
of the phone bill.  In this article we will write a simple
report generator in the f