Jeremy Coulter asked: > Does anyone use Rave Reports in their apps. ? > What have been your experiences. From memory you have to supply a DLL > or maybe 2 with your app. install?
Yes, we use RAVE, or more correctly RPPro in the Accredo Business Software suite (nee Profax Accounting), and we have done so for about 10 years. As shipped it's a totally Delphi sourced based distribution and has various layers that you can work at for generating reports. Originally it was a very good code based reporting engine called RPPro, and that is the level at which we still use it. This provides us with a fairly good insulation from the actual Windows printing device model and allows for various outputs to be generated from it. The mains ones that we use are the printer output, and the PDF output engines. Over the years Nevrona decided to add a full user report design surface and renamed the package RAVE, but after looking at RAVE we decided that we were better off writing our own domain specific report designers and totally ignoring the RAVE designer. Other may feel differently but it really depends on the data you are reporting from and the level of user skill that your product has. There are one or two remaining gremlins in the RPPro reporting engine that I have hacked around over the years, the two most annoying were handling the printer naming mess that occurs in Terminal Server situations, and the lack of elegant font embedding technology in the PDF output engine. Happily there are various third (or is that forth?) party solutions to the PDF output from RPPRo side of things and you can buy some very advanced PDF output stuff that will to all the PDF magic you may ever need. Overall I recommend RAVE/RPPro as a package, but be warned that Nevrona have focused heavily on the RAVE side of things over the last 5 years and have been ignoring any improvements to the RPPro code based layer, and have made minimal patches to issues in it over the last 4 or 5 releases. Now that they concentrate on RAVE they are letting RPPro slowly stagnate so long as its supports RAVE that's all they care about, as its their primary market. Cheers, Max. _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe
