Oh yeah, and there's a free version of it out there as well. I think
FastReport started off free and then forked into commercial FastReport vs.
FreeReport. FreeReport is no longer connected to FastReport, but they seem
to still be compatible..
http://www.adwin.ru/dinfo/eng/freereport/
At 11:01 6/09/2001 +1200, you wrote:
>FastReport (http://www.fastreport.ru/) is US$99 and is one of the lightest
>available.
>
>I started using it a while back & it's richtext support was one of the
>reasons. That price includes the user-level report builder. It connects to
>TDatasets (along with other methods), so it's compatible with everything.
>There's a QR to FR converter (although I've never used it). It exports
>well (to TXT, RTF, CSV & HTML) and there's a 3rd party add-on
>(http://www.pragnaan.com/download.html) for exporting to just about
>everything else (including PDF, GIF, JPEG, BMP, EMF, WMF). It's written in
>Delphi & has a pascal script interpreter built in. And while I've never
>done any direct comparisons, rumour has it that it's fast ;)
>
>Ed
>
>
>At 10:37 6/09/2001 +1200, you wrote:
>>Morning all,
>>
>>Our customers need to dynamically generate -> preview -> print complex RTF
>>documents from within our D5 Apps, the building blocks (RTF format) of these
>>documents are stored in the DB tables as Blob fields.
>>
>>Due to the limitation of QuickReport (we use 3.8 Std) - e.g.
>>QRRichText/QRDBRichText simply can't stretch properly through multiple
>>pages - we are looking for some alternative components which will offer all
>>or most of the following:
>>
>>/. Strait Delphi VCL package.
>>/. BDE, IBX, ADO support.
>>/. Good visual design UI (similar to QR).
>>/. Preview, print (export).
>>/. No or light deployment overhead, ideally compile and run.
>>/. Free or inexpensive.
>>
>>... Well, you know what I'm after.
>>
>>I have some knowledge about ReportBuilder and CrystalReport RDC, but would
>>like to hear from experienced users on currently available tools. All
>>recommendations are welcome and appreciated.
>>
>>Cheng
>>
>>
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