We used to use ExtraDevices to print ReportBuilder Reports to Excel. Unfortunately, there seems to be no support for Delphi XE.
Can someone suggest an alternative way to print a ReportBuidler Report to Excel? It doesn't have to be a free solution, though an open source option is always preferable.
I am currently considering Gnostice and ReportBuilder Export Devices Pro
Our only requirement is to be able to print to Excel, so my initial sense is that option 2 might be a better fit.
How reliable are these tools? And, can someone suggest other alternatives? We do not need to print to PDF.
Thank you!
This may be too late now but I am leaving this response for anyone else who might be interested in it. (I am from Gnostice.) If you are using eDocEngine, there are three ways to save the report as XLS. Instead of the PDF engine component used in this article, use our XLS engine component. You can enable the print to file option and let it save to an XLS file. You can also use a RTM template, load it with data and print to file. You can also create a RAF file and also render it to XLS without any user interaction.
http://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.asp?id=243&t=Export_From_ReportBuilder_To_PDF_And_Other_Formats
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In Quickreport, when we click Save button, it will appears many option of extension (QuickReport file(.qrp), Excel spreadsheet (.xls), and so on).
I just need to display only QuickReport file as a filter extension option? Is it possible? I read QuickReport Help but found nothing.
Quickreport version 4.06
Find and delete (or comment out) the qrextra and qrhtml units in your uses clause, and remove the corresponding componnents (TQRXLSFilter, TQRExcelFilter, TQRHTMLDocumentFilter, TQRAsciiExportFilter, TQRCommaSeparatedFilter, TQRRTFExportFilter, and TQRWMFExportFilter) from any forms in your application. You'll find the full list of all of the available standard export filters in QRExport.pas.
(It's often important to include the version of any third party components you're using, particularly those that change drastically between versions such as QuickReports or Indy, in order to make it easier to answer your question.)
There are two systems. I need to get the document in some format and print it in my application.
The source file should be in a pdf format.
Do you know the component for delphi7 that i could be able to open pdf file and print it on delphi's canvas. Is such approach good for the pdf document quality?
Or which format of the source document could be better to print in delphi application?
Thanks
I think almost all PDF preview components may do it.
When searching - https://www.google.ru/search?client=opera&q=delphi+render+pdf+to+canvas&sourceid=opera - you would instantly get at least few commercial libs:
http://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.asp?id=229&t=Convert_PDF_To_High-Resolution_Images_Using_Delphi
http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/faq/can-i-use-quick-pdf-as-a-viewer-in-my-delphi-application.php
http://www.wpcubed.com/manuals/wpviewpdf/idh_twpviewpdf_printhdc.htm
TCanvas is a wapper around Windows HDC. See http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/en/Vcl.Graphics.TCanvas.Handle
I have imported Acrobat Reader using Components | Import Components. The AcroPdf_TLB unit is created in the Imports directory.
When I try to use the AcrobatReader component, as follows ...
AcroDoc := TAcroPDF.Create(nil);
... I get an 'Unspecified Error' exception (EOleSysError). Any ideas?
Thanks, Pieter.
If you are unhappy with the results you are getting there (I was), you might consider giving QuickPDF a try. The price is not unreasonable, they have lots of good PDF functions included and you can display a PDF accurately in a TImage control with a call to RenderPageToStream. One thing I discovered working with form fields is that I had to use their FlattenFormField before rendering to get the form field contents to be included in the rendered image.
Follow up:
I did not mention originally that QuickPDF also works for printing. For form fields, you have to do the same FlattenFormField routine, but the results look good with much less overhead than relying on Acrobat Reader.
We use the Adobe Reader plug-in and face this issue often. It particularly surfaces after a user performs a web-update on the Adobe Reader.
Try un-installing (via the Control Panel), then re-installing the latest Adobe Reader.
That invariably clears the issue for our users.
Put the component on a TForm, then it probably works.
The Acrobat ActiveX/COM object is notorious for not supporting interfaces of older versions properly. You get EOleSysErrors all over the place.
What I have personally done for a couple of clients, is load the PDF documents in a TWebBrowser.
TWebBrowser is a wrapper around the ActiveX/COM component that Internet explorer uses to display everything.
Adobe is pretty good in making that work with each Acrobat update, so the TWebBrowser then also works.
Note that this only makes sense for displaying the PDF document.
--jeroen
We successfully used the acrobat v6 reader component in our Delphi 7 app, but found that it really requires acrobat v6. Users today who install only acrobat v9 get an error when they use our app to view a pdf because the acrobat component is not backward compatible in this way.
So yes, you can do it, but there are probable issues going forward.
A third party tool is prob best...
I'm looking for an application that will allow me to add mark-ups to pdfs just like adobe acrobat does via the comments option (e.g. stickynotes), including the options of hiding all comments, showing, printing and saving them to the pdf. My application is written using delphi 2009 and this is an additional feature I require.
There doesn't appear to be any vcl providers out there doing this at the moment (?). I've contacted quickpdf, vispdf, etc, etc
I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has done this already / can do this,
thanks,
Matthew
Gnostice are well known for their PDF components for Delphi, specifically PDFtoolkit.
For future readers, Amyuni PDF Creator allows to select (and create) specific components within a PDF file (such as text, images or annotations) and change their attributes. It can be used in Delphi as an ActiveX control.
I have multiple rave reports(projects) in the project(the delphi project) and I want to save them all in one pdf file. How can I do it?
While I don't have any real experience with Rave reports, I also had to perform stitching of multiple "pdf" pages to a single pdf document. I ended up using Gnostice PDFToolkit to do the final merge and it works quite well. In my case I was generating multi-thousand page documents, so i'm sure it will fit your needs.
Does Rave already export to PDF? If so then there are a number of libraries that support merging of PDFs programmatically. The main difference between them will be how many files they can merge at once (some support only two and some support merging a full array at once) and how quickly the output is produced.
If Rave doesn't already export to PDF, however, then you'd likely need a printer driver based PDF component. The idea would be to tell Rave to print the report to a named virtual printer, then use the printer driver based component to capture that print job as a PDF. Once you've got the PDF, you can do the merge.
It's been years since I've personally worked with Rave (last time was in the C++Builder/Delphi 6 days) but hopefully this helps. If you need more info just let me know, I worked at Borland for a long time (before they became Embarcadero) and now work with PDF toolkits for developers.