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Description

PDF In-The-Box for Delphi is a VCL component that lets you create PDF files programmatically. It writes native PDF format with no intermediate file. No third-party software needed. You don�t have to know anything about the PDF format structure.

Source code in Delphi language is available in option. ActiveX and DLL APIs also available.

Your applications based on PDF In-The-Box can be freely deployed. No run-time licence needed.

A comprehensive programming interface (about 110 methods, properties and events) allows you to build up sophisticated PDF documents.

Features:

• Text management:
  • All TrueType fonts supported.
  • Multi-line text with smart hyphenation, horizontal and vertical alignment.
  • Style sheets.
  • Style inheritance.
  • Insertion of rich texts loaded from RTF files.
• Interactive Forms:
  • Supported field types: pushbutton, edit box, memo box, list box, combo box, check box, radio buttons.
  • Support of style sheets.
  • Links and JavaScript actions can be set on all fields.
• Grids:
  • Powerful grid management system with cell drawing and filling methods.
  • Customization of aspect and dimensions for every column.
• Graphics:
  • 15 methods available to draw geometrical shapes (lines, rectangles, circles, pies, polygons, Bezier curves, etc).
  • Images retrieved from memory or loaded from disk (.BMP, .JPG, .WMF, .EMF, .ICO formats).
  • Smart image stretching (preserving aspect ratio).
  • Image compression with Zlib or Jpeg algorithms.
  • Repetitive image management.
• Multimedia:
  • Bookmarks (table of contents displayed as an outline tree in PDF viewers).
  • Hyperlinks: internal, remote, external or Internet links.
  • Annotations and rubber stamps.
• Document Control:
  • All paper sizes supported.
  • Orientation may be changed inside a document.
  • Document properties: author, keywords, producer, subject, title.
  • Encryption and protection: owner password, user password, security options.

Informations

• Status: Partially restricted
• Source: On purchase/registration
• price: $195
• Size: 17 167kB

Platforms: D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D2010, D5, D6, D7, DXE, DXE2, DXE3, DXE4

Developer Tools > Report Tools > Report Tools

Description

Report generator for Windows Developers. Includes an easy-to-use report editor and powerful programming interfaces for all languages.

Features:

• Data Connection:
• Can connect to all SQL databases using ADO, BDE or ODBC technologies).
• Native connections to specific databases.
• Connection re-routing and merging facility.
• Report Editor:
• Powerful and user-friendly report editor.
• Bilingual English and French software.
• SQL query editor.
• Syntax-highlighting formula editor
• Document framework editor.
• Comprehensive property editor.
• Data dictionaries with inheritance features.
• Report viewer (document, data grid, chart, hypercube).
• Reports:
• Data sources: data can be retrieved from databases or supplied by external applications.
• Can process automatic calculations and produce statistics from retrieved data.
• Output to screen, printer, email, or to various file formats (PDF, HTML, RTF, image formats, TXT, XML, MS-Excel, MS-Word, etc).
• Supports: images, rich texts, bar-codes, business charts, tables of contents, visual models, hyperlinks, calculation formulas...
• Dynamic layout.
• Sub-reports.
• Multilingual reports.
• Programming Interfaces: 3 equivalent object-oriented APIs, each of them containing about 300 programming symbols (methods, properties and events):
• ActiveX.
• VCL: supports Delphi 5, 6, 7, 2005, 2006 and 2007 (in Win 32 mode) and C++Builder 5.
• DLL: based on a plain dynamic link library. Supports all programming languages.
• Companion Tools:
• DataSurfer: business-intelligence tool.
• ReportRetoucher: visual retouching tool for End-Users.
• ReportServer: Intranet and Extranet report publisher.

Informations

• Status: Evaluation (time-limit)
• Source: None
• price: $590
• Size: 92 327kB

Platforms: CB5, D2005, D2006, D2007, D5, D6, D7