FastReport .Net allows you to export reports in various formats, send them via Email, as well as via FTP. In this article, I want to focus on the transfer to the server via FTP reports. It should be noted, it is not very convenient to run each report and manually perform sending via FTP. What if a l...

Generally known, that one of strong sides of FastReport.Net is export of reports to various formats. Developers of the company actively introduce new products and upgrades. A new export to PDF/A format has been introduced recently. Unfortunately, not all customers its main purpose and how it works ....

Nowadays, copying of a text from documents is spread and it is being developed. PDF document uses embedded fonts in documents and serves to protect them from copying. However, not all fonts can be embedded in a document as some of them have a copyright. If you are developing a document for printing ...

This article demonstrates a graphic editor introduced by FastReport.Net and seeks to offer strategies how to use some of its new features which differentiate the editor from a well - known graphic editor Point. Let us take a close look at the object "Shapes” that includes both finished shape...

In the article "Using QR-codes in FastReport.Net" we have reviewed the popular 2D barcode formats. Today, I would like to talk about another popular format, which is also supported in FastReport.Net. This is an “Aztec-code”. The name of the code is associated with an ancient Indian tri...

There used to be a question “How to use JSON data to my web reports?” as it was not easy to implement it in FastReport.Net. Recently a version 2016.2 has been released to answer it and help users. It must be clarified that JSON (Java Script Object Notation) is a text data exchange form...

Nowadays “QR-codes” are gaining their popularity. Unlike conventional barcodes, “QR-codes” allow you to encode more information in different formats. They are widely spread in trade, logistics and production. To recognize such codes one does not need a special laser reader. A...

With the release of the new version FastReport.Net 2017.1.0 we got a significant acceleration of report building, exporting, and reduced memory consumption. These changes have prompted me to make a comparison test of the "old" and the "new" versions. Testing technique For testing we will build a r...

In this article I want to consider working with the Configurator, one of the programs of the FastReport Desktop complex. This program is designed to create special configuration files. They are instructions for the report builder, they specify actions with the report. Namely: export the report to va...

FastReport.Desktop includes a console report builder. Report Builder is a console utility for automating operations on reports. It can perform the following operations: Batch processing of reports; Export to all available formats; Connection of the data source; Sending the result by e-mail; ...