In this article, we'll take a look at the world of the .NET platform on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS without using Microsoft Visual Studio, as it can't be installed on Linux, and create a PDF exportable report. The current analog of Visual Studio is, of course, JetBrains Rider. It is a cross-platform .NET IDE...
Libgdiplus
To create high-quality reports and correctly export them to different formats (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.), it is necessary to use the graphics engine. Since the earliest versions of the .NET Framework, Microsoft has used GDI+ and its wrapper as part of the System.Drawing library. FastReport .NET has lo...
Docker is a software platform for rapid development, testing and launching of applications. Due to it, one may locate multiple containers on one server. The containers are understood as integrity of our application, its dependences, and image. One should remember that an image is a template which re...
When using the FastReport.NET (Core), FastReport Open Source and FastReport Mono libraries on Linux operating system, as well as when saving documents as images or PDF files, there is a possibility to experience the incorrect display of Unicode texts in the report preview. One of the most common pr...
FastReport .NET 2017.4 now supports .NET Core, so users can utilize FastReport .NET in Windows, Linux and Docker containers. For using it under Linux one needs XServer, the "libgdiplus" and the "libx11-dev" libraries. The package includes a demo version, which allows to check whether FR.Net is worki...
In the previous article we have considered an example of using a new product of FastReport - the FastReport Core. That was an example for Windows. This time we will overview an example for Linux. First of all, for Linux need additional libraries, which may not be installed by default: Libgdiplus...