Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
Done. The FAQ is started. ANdreas Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > > Sure. > > You can add pages to the wiki about fpreport: > > http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPReport > > I suggest adding a new page > > http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPReport_FAQ > > and linking to it from the main page. But don't add the FAQ directly > in the main page itself. > > Michael. > -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
Sure. You can add pages to the wiki about fpreport: http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPReport I suggest adding a new page http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPReport_FAQ and linking to it from the main page. But don't add the FAQ directly in the main page itself. Michael. On Sat, 30 Sep 2017, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: Is it possible to make a FAQ for fpreport ? Regards Andreas Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: On 2017-09-27 09:38, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote: What is my mistake of understanding ? You made a couple of mistakes and highlighted a bug in the PDF exporter. Mistakes: ... Regards, Graeme -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
Is it possible to make a FAQ for fpreport ? Regards Andreas Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > On 2017-09-27 09:38, Andreas Frieà via Lazarus wrote: > > What is my mistake of understanding ? > > You made a couple of mistakes and highlighted a bug in the PDF > exporter. > > Mistakes: > ... > > Regards, >Graeme -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
On 2017-09-28 12:40, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: because there is also the 8.3 filename support that interferes. Oh yeah, I completely forgot about those platforms. :-/ Regards, Graeme -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
On 2017-09-28 11:05, Andrea Mauri via Lazarus wrote: What are the minimum requirements to use fpreport? Can I use it with laz 1.6.2 and fpc 3.0.0? I don't track the lazarus version I use, but I'm using fpreport (from FPC Trunk) with FPC 2.6.4. On a side note: I did notice recently that there was some FPC Trunk changes of fpReport that breaks FPC 2.6.4 support, but it was a single IFDEF to fix the issue locally. I'll submit a patch for that tomorrow on Mantis. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Andrea Mauri via Lazarus wrote: Il 28/09/2017 12:15, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus ha scritto: Normally you can, but you will need to copy some additional units from the trunk version of the FPC source repo (in particular, fpexprpars, and fcl-pdf) fpReport is in production use with 2.6.4 as the compiler. I downloaded fcl-report, fcl-pdf, fpexprpars from FPC trunk and fpreport. When I try to compile lclfpreport package I got: cfgfpreportimageexport.pp(24,42) Fatal: Cannot find fpreport used by cfgfpreportimageexport of package lclfpreport. Sounds like a misconfigured path. Hard to debug, because there is also the 8.3 filename support that interferes. How I cursed that while developing fpreport !! :/ Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
Il 28/09/2017 12:15, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus ha scritto: Normally you can, but you will need to copy some additional units from the trunk version of the FPC source repo (in particular, fpexprpars, and fcl-pdf) fpReport is in production use with 2.6.4 as the compiler. I downloaded fcl-report, fcl-pdf, fpexprpars from FPC trunk and fpreport. When I try to compile lclfpreport package I got: cfgfpreportimageexport.pp(24,42) Fatal: Cannot find fpreport used by cfgfpreportimageexport of package lclfpreport. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Andrea Mauri via Lazarus wrote: Il 27/09/2017 12:50, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus ha scritto: ps: Note that I compiled your project using the latest fpReport from FPC Trunk. I simply set the correct Unit Source Path in the project. You don't need to use FPC Trunk compiler - I used FPC 2.6.4. What are the minimum requirements to use fpreport? Can I use it with laz 1.6.2 and fpc 3.0.0? I downloaded both fcl-report and fpreport. I tried to install fpreport but I failed. Normally you can, but you will need to copy some additional units from the trunk version of the FPC source repo (in particular, fpexprpars, and fcl-pdf) fpReport is in production use with 2.6.4 as the compiler. Michael. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
Il 27/09/2017 12:50, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus ha scritto: ps: Note that I compiled your project using the latest fpReport from FPC Trunk. I simply set the correct Unit Source Path in the project. You don't need to use FPC Trunk compiler - I used FPC 2.6.4. What are the minimum requirements to use fpreport? Can I use it with laz 1.6.2 and fpc 3.0.0? I downloaded both fcl-report and fpreport. I tried to install fpreport but I failed. Any hint? -- ___ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
THX Graeme
In windows this is possible and running: -> I have my sample extended
procedure TForm1.FormActivate(Sender: TObject);
begin
if not FInit then begin
gTTFontCache.ReadStandardFonts;
gTTFontCache.BuildFontCache;
if PaperManager.PaperCount=0 then
PaperManager.RegisterStandardSizes;
FInit:= true;
end;
end;
The problem with fontcache, is not (maybe direct) visible in the demo on
FPReport Usage.
BTW: point 3 -> the code is copied direct from the 'designer' :-) not
made on my own - lol.
Bugreport for the designer problem with orientation is 32470, i will
check this and close if running.
Andreas
Am 27.09.2017 um 12:50 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus:
On 2017-09-27 09:38, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote:
What is my mistake of understanding ?
You made a couple of mistakes and highlighted a bug in the PDF exporter.
Mistakes:
1. You never registered the standard page sizes with:
PaperManager.RegisterStandardSizes;
2. Your report used LiberationSans font. Make sure you added
the search paths to the font cache. eg:
{$IFDEF UNIX}
gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add(GetUserDir + '.fonts/');
gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add('/data/devel/Wisa/fonts/Liberation/');
{$ENDIF}
3. You positioned a lot of reporting elements overlapping each
other. Correct positioning will help you see things better. ;-)
Bug:
The PDF exporter didn't handle Page.Orientation of Landscape
correctly, and rendered such pages from the bottom upwards.
I supplied a patch to FPC's Mantis so hopefully Michael or
somebody could commit that soon.
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32478
After all that, the report renders just fine.
ps:
Note that I compiled your project using the latest fpReport from
FPC Trunk. I simply set the correct Unit Source Path in the project.
You don't need to use FPC Trunk compiler - I used FPC 2.6.4.
Regards,
Graeme
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Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
On 2017-09-27 09:38, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote:
What is my mistake of understanding ?
You made a couple of mistakes and highlighted a bug in the PDF exporter.
Mistakes:
1. You never registered the standard page sizes with:
PaperManager.RegisterStandardSizes;
2. Your report used LiberationSans font. Make sure you added
the search paths to the font cache. eg:
{$IFDEF UNIX}
gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add(GetUserDir + '.fonts/');
gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add('/data/devel/Wisa/fonts/Liberation/');
{$ENDIF}
3. You positioned a lot of reporting elements overlapping each
other. Correct positioning will help you see things better. ;-)
Bug:
The PDF exporter didn't handle Page.Orientation of Landscape
correctly, and rendered such pages from the bottom upwards.
I supplied a patch to FPC's Mantis so hopefully Michael or
somebody could commit that soon.
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32478
After all that, the report renders just fine.
Patch Applied, thanks for the fix!
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Re: [Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter
On 2017-09-27 09:38, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote:
What is my mistake of understanding ?
You made a couple of mistakes and highlighted a bug in the PDF exporter.
Mistakes:
1. You never registered the standard page sizes with:
PaperManager.RegisterStandardSizes;
2. Your report used LiberationSans font. Make sure you added
the search paths to the font cache. eg:
{$IFDEF UNIX}
gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add(GetUserDir + '.fonts/');
gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add('/data/devel/Wisa/fonts/Liberation/');
{$ENDIF}
3. You positioned a lot of reporting elements overlapping each
other. Correct positioning will help you see things better. ;-)
Bug:
The PDF exporter didn't handle Page.Orientation of Landscape
correctly, and rendered such pages from the bottom upwards.
I supplied a patch to FPC's Mantis so hopefully Michael or
somebody could commit that soon.
https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32478
After all that, the report renders just fine.
ps:
Note that I compiled your project using the latest fpReport from
FPC Trunk. I simply set the correct Unit Source Path in the project.
You don't need to use FPC Trunk compiler - I used FPC 2.6.4.
Regards,
Graeme
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