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 “...

Few believed in the success of the new open-source ASP.Net Core framework from Microsoft. It’s all because of the low popularity of the previous ASP.Net platform. However, very soon everyone appreciated the advantages of the new cross-platform framework. Nowadays ASP.Net Core occupies a high p...

“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...

Applications built in Delphi are less common than, for example, those built in C #. These programming languages are from different times. However, even nowadays Delphi and VCL can complete some of the modern tasks. There are many free and commercial libraries that can modernize even old applications...

The Delphi programming language, or Turbo Pascal, has become a starting point for many developers. Thanks to the simple and clear syntax and the ability to write in a procedural style, it turned out to be very easy to learn. Many would compare it with Visual Basic, but at the peak of its popularity ...

I guess every WinForms developer came across the idea that the standard form controls look too unitary and that it would be nice to bring more interesting design to the application. So, especially for such cases when we need a special design, Microsoft created a special library – WPF (Windows ...

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...