What to do after DropBox stops working with Internet Explorer in OAuth 2.0 authorization mode? Since DropBox stopped supporting Internet Explorer with OAuth 2.0 authorization and the TWebBrowser component was based on Internet Explorer, there was a problem replacing TWebBrowser for authorization in...
Tables. For centuries, they have been used to present similar data for record-keeping, counting amounts, and data analysis. For a long time, tables have been a constant tool in accounting and statistics. And it was not until the end of the 20th century that they acquired a completely different quali...
In FastReport 2020.1 we have added the ability to change export parameters. To do this, you must subscribe to the ExportParameters event in WebReport.Report. Until now the FastReport.Net library did not provide access to the export parameters. Or rather, it did, but only to some of the parameters, ...
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 TXT file stores text documents with information organized in the form of lines. In modern systems, strings are separated by line separators; in the past, storing strings in the form of records of constant or variable length was used. Sometimes the end of a text file (especially if the file size ...
Quite often, you need to get a PDF document from a Pascal application - either Delphi or Lazarus. Usually it is recommended to use specialized solutions, PDF converters (such as itext, Synopse PDF Engine, PowerPDF, HotPDF, PDF Creator Pilot, PDFtoolkit VCL, Debenu Quick PDF Library etc.). In this ar...
Oh, it’s an eternal topic – creating an Excel spreadsheet from Delphi. Excel spreadsheets are one of the world’s standards today and for programs, even simple ones, it is frequently required to output the data as tables and transfer reports to the spreadsheet. One thing to notice i...
Until recently, the export of multi-page reports in Excel format was done on one sheet. That is, all pages of the report were displayed on one sheet in Excel. Of course, this is not always convenient; it would be better to be able to display each page of the report on a separate sheet in an Excel do...
While working with FastReports online report designer, we usually have to upload our report templates into it, and then, after editing, download them. Today we will look at how this can be done in the context of an ASP.Net Core application. Create an ASP.Net Core application. Add the FastReport.Net...
Electronic document management has become an integral part of our lives already long time ago. Everyone appreciated the convenience of such documents - they do not deteriorate over time, they are more difficult to lose, easy to store and quickly transfer to any distance. And although, the times of r...
FastReport.OpenSource has gained a lot of interest among many developers. This is a great report generator with a long history. The open source version is FastReport.Core, which appeared at the beginning of 2018, but with some restrictions. Namely - curtailed exports. Thus, only the following format...
Fast Report 6 pleased us with an updated export engine. This affected the export of compound objects, such as charts, maps, RichText. Earlier these objects were exported as a picture, but now a vector representation of objects and text is used. This means the scaling of objects does not affect the q...
The new version of FastReport .Net 2018.1 has a new export to the ZPL (Zebra Programming Language) format. This format is designed to be used in conjunction with special label printers. More information about ZPL can be found in the article "Page description language – ZPL". When developing r...
A very interesting feature has been created in FastReport.Net - it allows to export to the messenger Jabber (XMPP). In fact, it is an HTML export with saving a report in Report Cloud. In this case, you receive a Web link to the report in your Jabber client. Such exports may be useful for a quick dem...
Title of the article partly reveals subject. I would like to consider configuration a viewer PDF files when exporting FastReport.Net report. This can be Acrobat Reader or browser's built-in viewer (Edge, Chrome) or any other viewer. You'll find that some of the options are very useful. Here is the t...
CMYK is a color model based on a synthesis of any color that is based on four basic colors: blue (the Cyan), purple (Magenta), yellow (Yellow), Black (Key Color). This model is mainly used in printing industry. Reviewing CMYK, one more color model must be mentioned –RGB. The color model RGB c...
It's nice that the range of formats to export reports to FastReport.Net constantly grows. With the ability to use JSON files as the data sources there appeared export support for this format (2016.2). JSON files are used for data transfer between the client and server web applications. Export save...
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...
When you use the FastReport .Net together ASP.Net MVC framework you have easy method for creating file in any supported format on button press in HTML form. Add next code in View: @using (Html.BeginForm("GetFile", "Home")) { <input id="pdf" type="submit" value="Export to PDF" /> } ...