# The &kugar; Handbook

## Introduction

&kugar; is a report creation tool for &Qt; and &kde;. It includes &GUI; report template designer, report engine, &konqueror; part for easy report preview and a set of examples.

The &kugar; Report Designer is a report template creation tool for &kugar; report engine. &kugar; report engine uses a &XML; based report template file (which can be created by hand or with &kudesigner;) and data file (also in &XML; format) to create reports. To get more information on &kudesigner; refer to the Report Template Designer Manual.

See The KugarTemplate Document Type Definition for an overview of template's DTD (file format), KugarData Document Type Definition and Tutorial for step-by-step explanation on how reports can be created.

Programmers should also refer to the Programmer's guide to find information about using &kugar; in their own applications.

&tutorial; &starting; &designermanual; &progguide;

## Credits and License

&kugar;

Copyright 2000 Mutiny Bay Software

Copyright 2000, 2001, Phil Thompson

Copyright 2002 Alexander Dymo

Portions of the documentation Copyright 2000,2001 Phil Thompson and Copyright 2002 Alexander Dymo

&underGPL; &underFDL;

## Document Structure

&templatedtd; &template; &templateelements; &datadtd; &dataelements;

## Installation

&install.intro.documentation; &install.compile.documentation;