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...
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In the article on working with NuGet packages we considered all the specific features of using with Fast Reports software. One of the most frequent questions of our clients is the following one: How do we install your licence packages in our product using Linux, MacOS or Windows so that we won&rsq...
It looks like that lockdown was not hard for Microsoft. This year, the Plenty’s Horn opened and we had a shower with new software products — the long-awaited Windows 11, and the new Visual Studio 22, and, of course, .NET 6.0. This is good news in these bad times. Let's talk about the...
Mono is an open source development platform based on the .NET Framework, allowing developers to create cross-platform applications. The implementation of Mono .NET is based on the ECMA standards for C # and Common Language Infrastructure. Initially, Mono was developed by Novell, then it was develop...
We often get questions about running FastReport.Mono on Mac OS X - people ask how to run Microsoft (exe) files on Apple devices. The answer lies in the product name - you should install Mono Framework on your device before running the report generator. Here is URL for MonoFramework: https://downloa...
Yes, it is possible. Our team are preparing now FastReport.Net Mono Edition. Let see screenshots: FastReport.Net demo in the "strange OS" FastReport.Net report designer in the same OS.
Inside of TrueType font Most used today font type is the TrueType fonts. TrueType technology was invented by Apple in late 1980. Now TrueType standard dominates over all other font types. Are there any reasons to know what is font? I know at least a single reason – embedding fonts into documen...
You've probably heard that our team is working on porting the FastReport.NET to the Mono platform - we told this at our conference, held last year in Rostov-on-Don. Then followed a long silence, and now we are ready to show where do we go. The main feature of this demo is that it can work in Wind...