When printing labels, price tags, and other formats with limited sizes, there is a challenge where design approaches for such reports are constrained. In such conditions, the text object can only grow to certain sizes, and splitting or migrating the text to another page is not possible. How can w...
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In FastReport 2019.4 added the ability to subscribe to PreviewControl.OnPrint and PreviewControl.OnExport events, which are called directly when the corresponding buttons are pressed. When viewing a report, a viewer is called with a toolbar that has elements such as a print button and a drop-down l...
The main report viewing tool FastReport.Net is Viewer. This viewer has a rich toolkit for storing, exporting, printing, and other manipulations with a report. All this variety is very useful but not always necessary. For example, for users who only view and print reports export emailing is absolute...
Sometimes you may need to limit the functionality of the report, for example, remove unnecessary export formats from the list in the preview mode. This can be done in your application code. Let’s write a function to delete a report object: 1 2 3 4 5 private void Remo...
Some objects in FR VCL 6 can be edited in the report viewer, that is, in the .fp3 format. After changing the objects, you can save the modified report in a preview format or export it to any other format. When can this be useful? For example, you do not have a report template, but there is only a pr...