For decades, the FastReport and FastCube libraries have been helping to organize fast reporting and powerful multidimensional analytics in various applications and industries. Particularly in Medicine. Dozens of development companies from all over the world (China, Africa, USA, Europe) responded to...

It is often necessary to combine several documents into one (for example, PDF). It could be several chapters of documentation, catalog directories etc. Strictly speaking, this sometimes needs to be done not only for PDF, it’s just that this file format itself does not imply editing and “...

“How to save in the HTML file format from Delphi?”, “how to create an HTML 5 file from Delphi?”, “how to create the HTML 5 file from Lazarus?” – these questions often arise among the developers. The HTML document is written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTM...

The SVG file is a two-dimensional vector image based on documents in XML format. The SVG format is used not only for the description of two-dimensional vector graphics, but also for mixed vector-raster images. Let's list the main advantages of SVG format: First of all, as previously mentioned ...

BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF – there is a variety of raster image formats. 1. BMP First of all, you should know that since BMP is an old image format it is not so popular among Internet users, only the bitmap images are saved in this format which doesn’t support the vector ones. The size of ....

The ODT file extension is used for Open Document text files, which are usually created using the OpenOffice or LibreOffice word processor apps. This document format is based on the XML markup language and therefore easy to convert. To understand what kind of format it is, it’s enough to see t...

Summary of ODS and ODF ODS is an open format for spreadsheets made in accordance with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard. This format is distributed free of charge and uses the standards of the International Organization for Standardization. The standard was developed by OASIS technical committ...

Microsoft PowerPoint is a program for preparing and viewing presentations. It is a part of Microsoft Office and is available in editions for Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems, as well as for Android and iOS mobile platforms.The program saves new presentations in * .pptx, * .ppt, * .ppsx ...

A frequent question is how to send a document from a Delphi application to RTF. It is a popular format and if you don’t have Microsoft Word installed on your computer you can use WordPad to open the file. This format is supported by Mac OS X’s default editor TextEdit. Most text editors s...

DOCX is an archive file that can be unpacked by a third-party program. This format is an upgraded version of the well-known DOC extension. A significant difference is a low file weight while maintaining all the original image parameters. If .doc is a binary text file, .docx contains XML files and ad...