posted by Sakila The Librarian
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Mon 07 Sep 2009 12:11 UTC
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A few days back I read the Workbench Team's blog and was curious about the printing capabilities of MySQL Workbench Community edition. As we already know by now, it only allows you to print a single page. I needed to review a customer query which had several tables and some complicated relationships, so I decided to take Workbench Community for a spin (I already knew the Standard edition from my previous job) and tested the following steps:imported the database after doing a "mysqldump -d" (Workbench Community can't connect to the database to get the schema directly).had Workbench rearrange the diagram.followed the Workbench Team's blog instructions to spread it among more pages, since it ended really cramped.created a PDF file, which was barely readable on paper.Here's where the heavy testing started. Besides the PDF file I also created an SVG and an EPS. All of these are scalable. My thinking was that if I imported these files into the right tools, I should be able to get a bigger printout.