Thanks for the comments everyone. Think I can convince my client to purchase Report Builder. Incase anyone's interested, I found a converter which converts Quick Reports into Report Builder reports. See http://www.waler.com/qr2rb.htm
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Robert Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 September, YYYY 10:36 To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Sending reports to HTML, PDF, RTF, etc. We have only had problems with CSV other formats have been great. The HTML was particularly impressive. Although I must admit that we haven't tested and reports with tables. We anticipate most users will use PDF anyway. Rob Software engineer Wild Software Ltd Ph 03 338-1407 ----- Original Message ----- From: "vss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:34 AM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Sending reports to HTML, PDF, RTF, etc. > We found you have to be a bit careful with Crystal doing these ecports. > It tents to screw stuff up like tables. > About the only format it actually exported data properly was PDF. > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Robert Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:25:33 +1200 > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Sending reports to HTML, PDF, RTF, etc. > > > 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/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > 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/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
