Simple Storage Service is a service for storing large volumes of data. This service divides stored data into logical units—buckets. User objects are already inside the buckets. The structure of storing objects in a bucket is similar to the file system of an OS. In FastReport .NET, we have add...
Export
We continue to tell you about the export options of FastReport VCL. Our development team adds many new and exciting features with each update. Today we want to remind you about the export format that we added back in 2017. We will talk about PDF/A and its functions. The well-known PDF document form...
LATEX is a typesetting system, designed for the production of high-quality technical and mathematical documentation. The system also works for other documents, from simple letters to complete books. LATEX uses TEX as its layout engine. The initial data for LATEX is a plain text file in ASCII. You c...
Earlier we reviewed BMP, JPEG, TIFF, and GIF in the article about various graphic image formats. It remains to discuss the last most common format - PNG. Currently, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is one of the best-known and most commonly used file formats. Why did it happen that this format is ...
Import of StimulSoft reports is now available with the 2022.2.13 release. To use it, go to the “File” menu in the FastReport .NET designer, FastReport CoreWin and FastReport Mono and click on the “Open ...” item. Select the filter "StimulSoft files (*.mrt)" in the window t...
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...
Few people know that FastReport .NET report generator allows you to quickly convert an RTF document into any other format supported by the FastReport .NET report generator. For example, you have a number of documents in RTF format and you would like to convert them into another format or just cr...
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...
What is a ZPL file? ZPL stands for Zebra Programming Language. It allows team to create the desired print design for any label or page. This makes the label independent from the specific printing device. The printer receives commands to produce shapes, frames, symbols and other things, and it...
Speaking of text editors, we immediately present coryphaeus as Microsoft Word, which for many years has occupied a pedestal among office applications. And although its first version appeared in 1986 for the IBM platform, it gained real popularity in the nineties already among Windows users. Like all...
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, ...
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 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 ...
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 se...
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 “...
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...
“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 ...
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 ...