The new version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 has become one of the high-profile software releases in 2021. Many people fell in love with this great tool designed for developers. Today we can say that modern Visual Studio (we will use VS) is perhaps the best IDE. Microsoft pays a lot of attention ...
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CODE 128 is the barcode developed by Computer Identics Corporation (U.S.A.) in 1981. CODE 128 can represent all 128 ASCII code characters (numbers, upper case/lower case letters, symbols and control codes). Since it can represent all characters (except Japanese kanji, hiragana and katakana) that ...
In the recent release of FastReport Online Designer, it became possible to add any fonts to the report. This new feature allows you to diversify the generated reports. In order to use non-standard fonts, you need: to deploy a font server; to define font settings using css; to ad...
Document flow plays an important role in building a corporate system. The fp3 format is the main document of the finished report if you use FastReport VCL in your system. To facilitate the generation of documents of different types from the internal format without rebuilding the reports, we have ...
About three years ago, we added a new special component called Transports. They enable to save built reports to the cloud, as well as use files in the cloud (for example, pictures) to build reports. Until now, there were 4 cloud transports: Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, and 2 non-cloud t...
Some people need to create PDF documents and at the same time sign them with a digital signature. To solve this issue, you can use FastReport VCL versions 2021.1-2021.4. But what if you need to sign a PDF document with more than one digital signature? This feature was integrated into the new vers...
Watermark exports to .DOCX and .RTF files have been added in FastReport .NET. limitation - the sign cannot be positioned above the text. A watermark is a text or image (mostly semi-transparent) that is superimposed so that it does not interfere with viewing the document. It is used to protect the c...
We have added the following barcodes: – GS1 Databar Limited; – GS1 Databar Omnidirectional; – GS1 Databar Stacked; – GS1 Databar Stacked Omnidirectional. GS1 DataBar is a highly versatile product labeling symbol primarily intended for scanning at POS terminals. GS1 Da...
Often, our users need to change the file export parameters, and we will look at their implementation today. This feature was integrated into the 2022.1 release. Let's say that we have a finished project. Let's take any report from the FastReport .NET demo application and add additional parameters...
Sometimes you may need to restrict the users' ability to edit and copy reports. The key is to do it so that they would not even guess that the program uses such a wonderful product as FastReport. Let's talk about how to keep report templates hidden from prying eyes. The idea is pretty simple: to sto...