Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Lee Jenkins wrote: >> Reporting is significant to an application (well the back office portion) >> that >> I'm hoping to write with Lazarus/Freepascal and without a viable solution, I >> stuck with using Delphi or Visual Studio/Mono. > > I have not user FreeReports or LazReports yet, so can't comment on them. > I wouldn't dismiss Lazarus/Free Pascal that quickly though. ;-) > > I have a RTF based report engine which might come in handy as well. I > use it to report off my tiOPF objects, but it can report from TDataset's > as well, or both. You can create custom fields (tags) for use in your > reports as well. So you are only limited to what Free Pascal can do! :) > > The RTF report engine was originally written for Delphi and tiOPF. I > ported it to Free Pascal and fpGUI. It should work as-is for Lazarus. I > commented out the image support due to fpGUI lacking JPEG support, but > that should be fairly straight forward to get working with Lazarus (as > it's much closer to how Delphi works). I can email you in private the > original and ported RTF engine if you want. It's one unit and a sample > application. > > BTW: I use OpenOffice to view reports and design the rtf report > templates. I have even created a OpenOffice macro to convert the > generated rtf to pdf before it gets viewed by the user. > > BTW #2: I still want to have a look at PowerPDF as well. That would be > handy for non-Lazarus based applications as well. >
Hi Graeme, That is the whole point, to use Lazarus/FreePascal! I want freedom of platform! I already know I that can (and am, for that matter) writing the major (front office) portion of my application in Laz/FPC. I'll take a look-see, but I'd rather not have 3rd party requirements for reporting if I can help it. PowerPDF seems pretty tight to me, even is there is no banded report designer. Maybe if you would send me what you have for your rtf engine, I could see how it might be used as a basis for one with PowerPDF. Fortunately, I will not need to start writing reports for quite a while yet so I can wait to see how LaReport shapes up. Just knowing I could use PowerPDF (after playing with it a bit yesterday) is enough for me if LazReport doesn't seem viable by the time I have to start on reporting. Nice to have options. :) BTW, I noticed that the PDF export filter that was written for FreeReport uses PowerPDF for its engine. Thanks to all for your input! -- Warm Regards, Lee "When my company started out, we were really, really, really, really small. Now...we're just really small." _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
