Jeremy Coulter asked further: > I seemed to remember that it output to PDF, but does it also export to Excel too?
Ummm, moderately badly as I have tested. The Excel export engine portion makes a bunch of guesses at cell positioning and stuff the generated report data into Excel with a certain amount of formatting. Its all a bit ugly really because it's a translation from paper based positioning into Excel cell based positioning.. Needless to say this was not good enough for us, so I wrote my own Excel and XLS exporting engines that take our raw data and moves it into Excel at exact locations, and with totalling expressions where possible. We never exposed our users to the RPPro Excel output at all after in house testing. > Most of our data is pretty basic. the most complex it gets is that it requires grouping. > I guess I need to workout our most complex report, and see how I go reproducing that. RPPro (code based) is superb at single dataset based reports with grouping. Its pretty much all our reporting engine does, with only bells and whistles being that we allow the users to selected the visible fields, the totalled fields, and the rest just generated. The other extras I have added are ways of generating master-detail dataset style reports and other more complicated structures (like master-detail-detail and master-(detail, detail), but as usual 80% of the reports are single table and the rest are not much more complicated. 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
