July 11, 2011

New release FastReport for COM/ActiveX v. 4.9

1. From the version 4.9 FastReport Studio has new name. From now FastReport Studio Developer Edition names FastReport for COM/ActiveX, FastReport Studio Business Edition - FastReport for Business.
These names more storng describe targets of products.

2. 11 of July FastReport for COM/ActiveX and FastReport for Business v.4.9 released

What news?

+ pictures format in all exports switched to PNG

It gives possibilities to use all the preferences of the PNG-formats, like quality, alpha-channels, size (in BIFF and HTML). Also it solves problems with preview on Apple-devices.

+ added export to DBF format - it can be use for data exchange of modules of different business applications

+ added new property ExpandDrillDown to IfrxReport interface - it allows control DrillDown reports programmatically


Version 4.9
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- fixed bug in the PDF export in rotating texts 90, 180 and 270 degrees
- fixed bug in the ODF export in processing of headers and footers
- fixed bug in the Text export in computing object bounds
- fixed bug in the ODF export in UTF8 encoding
- fixed hiding gridlines around nonempty cells in the BIFF export
+ added property TfrxODFExport.SingleSheet
+ added property TfrxSimpleTextExport.DeleteEmptyColumns
- fixed images bluring when exporting
+ optimised merging cells in the BIFF export
- fixed word wrapping in the Excel XML export
- fixed bug in XML export with the ShowProgress property
- fixed bug in RTF export with font size in empty cells
- fixed bug in ODF export with UTF8 encoding of the Creator field
- fixed bug in XML export with processing special characters in strings
- fixed bug in ODF export with properties table:number-columns-spanned, table:number-rows-spanned
- fixed bug in ODF export with the background clNone color
- fixed bug in ODF export with a style of table:covered-table-cell
- fixed bug in ODF export with table:covered-table-cell duplicates
- fixed bug in ODF export with excessive text:p inside table:covered-table-cell
- fixed bug in ODF export with language styles
- fixed bug in ODF export with spaces and tab symbols
- fixed bug in ODF export with styles of number cells
- fixed bug in ODF export with the background picture
- fixed bug in ODF export with charspacing
- fixed bug in ODF export with number formatting
- fixed bug in ODF export with table-row tag
- fixed bug in XLS(OLE) export with numbers formatting
- fixed bug in RTF export with processing RTF fields
- fixed bug with processing special symbols in HTML Export
- fixed bug with UTF8 encoding in ODF export
- fixed bug in PDF export with underlined, struck-out and rotated texts

November 10, 2025

Release of Version 2026.1 for FastReport Online Designer

In version 2026.1 of FastReport Online Designer, there is a report validator, new components and controls for .NET and VCL solutions, redesigned the main toolbar, improved the IntelliSense system.
November 10, 2025

New data-handling capabilities in FastReport VCL Ultimate

With the 2026.1 release, the Ultimate VCL subscription has become even more valuable. All license owners now receive the new FastGrid library and the ability to create reports using FastReport Online Designer.
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