Comparison of FastReport VCL Editions

Embarcadero RAD Edition

This edition is distributed with Embarcadero RAD Studio.

Standard Edition

Dialog designer displayed in the process of building the report, built-in script shell that supports 4 languages: PascalScript, C++ Script, BasicScript and Jscript and allows you to control the logic of reports building, the end-user report designer.

Professional Edition

All the features of our FastReport VCL Standard Edition the Professional Edition and a little bit more. A built-in SQL query builder, which allows you to create complex queries without the need to learn subtleties of SQL language. Full source code for the report generator, which allows you to thoroughly understand the reporting logic and to make any minor adjustments you may require.

Enterprise Edition

This edition goes beyond the common standards of today’s reporting software. Distance no longer matters! In addition to all the advantages of FastReport VCL Professional Edition, this edition includes web-reporting components.

Ultimate Edition ^NEW

For those who need more. On top of all capabilities of the Enterprise, in Ultimate we added a full set of tools for creating and supporting the reporting system infrastructure. It includes FastReport VCL Enterprise, FastCube VCL Professional, FastReport FMХ, FastCube FMХ.

You will complete your project with cross-platform solutions and will be able to create a fullfledged BI platform by combining the power of FastReport and FastCube while saving your resources.

	Embarcadero Edition	Standard	Professional	Enterprise	Ultimate
Report Design Features
Just-in-time localization	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Object inspector localization	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multiple Report Pages	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multiple Bands on Page	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Right to Left Text Support	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
UI Localization	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
InPlace Editor	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Improved Guide Lines	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Final Report Modification		✓	✓	✓	✓
Event handlers		✓	✓	✓	✓
Run-time end-user Designer		✓	✓	✓	✓
Extended Script Debugger		✓	✓	✓	✓
Visual SQL builder			✓	✓	✓
Report Objects
Special Bands (Footers, Headers)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Hyperlink Embedding	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Single Line Texts	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multi-line Texts	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
HTML-formatted Texts (simple HTML tags in text object)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
HTML View		✓	✓	✓	✓
PDF View		✓	✓	✓	✓
RTF-formatted Texts	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
BMP Pictures	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Metafile Pictures	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
JPEG Pictures	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
PNG Pictures	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
ICO Pictures	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Charts	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Barcodes	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
2D Barcodes		✓	✓	✓	✓
Gradients	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
CheckBoxes	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Arrows	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Simple Geometric Objects	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Maps (SHP, OSM, GPX)		✓	✓	✓	✓
Table		✓	✓	✓	✓
Gauges		✓	✓	✓	✓
Cellular Text		✓	✓	✓	✓
Zipcode		✓	✓	✓	✓
Vertical Bands		✓	✓	✓	✓
Cross-tabs		✓	✓	✓	✓
Dialogue Form Designer		✓	✓	✓	✓
Internal Datasets		✓	✓	✓	✓
Interbase Express (IBX), IBOjects, ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) and dbExpress support		✓	✓	✓	✓
Exports
PDF (1.4 - 1.7)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
PDF (EMF vector)		✓	✓	✓	✓
RTF	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
HTML	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
TXT	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
JPEG, BMP, TIFF, GIF, EMF, PNG	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
CSV	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
HTML5		✓	✓	✓	✓
SVG		✓	✓	✓	✓
ODS, ODT		✓	✓	✓	✓
Excel Binary		✓	✓	✓	✓
Excel XML / XLIFF		✓	✓	✓	✓
Word XML		✓	✓	✓	✓
PowerPoint XML		✓	✓	✓	✓
PPML		✓	✓	✓	✓
PostScript		✓	✓	✓	✓
Email		✓	✓	✓	✓
DBF		✓	✓	✓	✓
Dot-Matrix / Matrix printer		✓	✓	✓	✓
ASCII Text File Output		✓	✓	✓	✓
ZPL		✓	✓	✓	✓
Report engine
Tree shift	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Linear shift	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Object anchors	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Duplicates merging	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Autofilling of empty page space	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Expressions post processing	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Detail reports	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Drill-down reports	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Interactive events		✓	✓	✓	✓
Additional features
Editing of prepared report in preview	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Script		✓	✓	✓	✓
Source Code			✓	✓	✓
Components for web-applications				✓	✓
Lazarus support			✓	✓	✓
FastReport FMX					✓
FastCube VCL					✓
FastCube FMX					✓
Windows support	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Linux support			✓	✓	✓
MacOS support					✓
Convertors from
Quick Reports		✓	✓	✓	✓
Rave Reports		✓	✓	✓	✓
Report Builder		✓	✓	✓	✓
Saving / uploading to the cloud storages
FTP (Indy)		✓	✓	✓	✓
BoxCom		✓	✓	✓	✓
DropBox		✓	✓	✓	✓
Mail		✓	✓	✓	✓
GoogleDrive		✓	✓	✓	✓
OneDrive		✓	✓	✓	✓