We have recently implemented this natively using Crystal (and all the above formats). One easy way of doing PDFs with Quick reports is to setup a PDF creator that acts like a printer and simply output your QR to it. We have one called Win2PDF (http://www.daneprairie.com/) which acts like a printer and allows an external application to specify file and and directory. All you would need do is send you print job to this, set the file name, wait for the file to appear and attach and send with an email.
The downside is that this makes setup/ install / maintenance of your application more difficult. This is why we use the native PDF output in Crystal. Rob Software engineer Wild Software Ltd Ph 03 338-1407 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 7:29 AM Subject: [DUG]: Sending reports to HTML, PDF, RTF, etc. > Hi, > > We have Quick Reports (sigh) and my client wants me to take a report as > Quick Reports generates it, and send it to a popular document format, such > as HTML, PDF or RTF. > > I've tried using QR's ExportToFilter, but found this function wasn't > recognised. Seems to be because we have QR standard 3.5.1, along with a mix > of old versions of QR's on the palette, as well as used in forms (one of the > old versions has qrHTML and source etc.) The report I'm working with uses > QReportOne rather than QuickReport, and I can't get it to recognise > ExportToFilter. > > Also tried downloading a trial version of Pragnaan QR Export Filters, but > can't get this to work, even though I've tried to convert the report to > QuickReports (as opposed to QReportOne which Pragnaan didn't recognise), but > couldn't get that working either. > I've read that QR's filters are not that hot, even if I could get them > working, which is why I was trying Pragnaan. > > Questions: > * What's the vote for most widely used format for document sharing? PDF, > HTML, RTF, XML....(we're talking PC users with little computer know-how) > * Are there any Delphi libraries that would enable the producing of my > simple report? (just text and one logo) e.g. started looking at Delphi's > internet page producers to make an HTML document, but I must make an HTML > template and I don't know HTML (I can see that look of shock). Or can I use > Delphi's RTFengine thingy? > > What my client should do: Buy me ReportBuilder Enterprise & Pragnaan's > export filters - then life would be sweet! > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Dave > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
