is there a way to see/export roles and permissions as a table

Currently you can look at the roles and permission either from the web or in the eclipse client.  It is excruciatingly painful to find a specific field in order to change its permission against a given role ... is there a way to extract that information so it can be displayed in a table format e.g. if I were to extract the XML for the custom attributes, it will auto create a table (if I choose that option) when viewing in excel.