RE: [DUG]: Alternative reporting components (D5 Ent)

2001-09-05 Thread Edward Aretino
>Isn't this what FreeReport is being baased off? Something about the >author no longer supporting it or something... not sure thou. No, that was an earlier fork as far as I can tell, FastReport is very well supported - the last release was a week ago. There's even dbExpress support and a be

RE: [DUG]: Alternative reporting components (D5 Ent)

2001-09-05 Thread Cheng Wei
Thanks Edward, I'm looking at your recommendation at the moment, quite like its small footprint. > I started using it a while back & it's richtext support was > one of the reasons. >From your experience, how good does it handle richtext, especially for data spinning multiple Bands/Pages? Regar

Re: [DUG]: Alternative reporting components (D5 Ent)

2001-09-05 Thread Mark Derricutt
Isn't this what FreeReport is being baased off? Something about the author no longer supporting it or something... not sure thou. --On Thursday, 6 September 2001 11:01 a.m. +1200 Edward Aretino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FastReport (http://www.fastreport.ru/) is US$99 and is one of the > l

Re: [DUG]: Alternative reporting components (D5 Ent)

2001-09-05 Thread Edward Aretino
Oh yeah, and there's a free version of it out there as well. I think FastReport started off free and then forked into commercial FastReport vs. FreeReport. FreeReport is no longer connected to FastReport, but they seem to still be compatible.. http://www.adwin.ru/dinfo/eng/freereport/ At 11:

Re: [DUG]: Alternative reporting components (D5 Ent)

2001-09-05 Thread Edward Aretino
FastReport (http://www.fastreport.ru/) is US$99 and is one of the lightest available. I started using it a while back & it's richtext support was one of the reasons. That price includes the user-level report builder. It connects to TDatasets (along with other methods), so it's compatible with

Re: [DUG]: Alternative reporting components (D5 Ent)

2001-09-05 Thread Neven MacEwan
- Original Message - From: "Cheng Wei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: [DUG]: Alternative reporting components (D5 Ent) > Morning all, > > Our custome

[DUG]: Alternative reporting components (D5 Ent)

2001-09-05 Thread Cheng Wei
Morning all, Our customers need to dynamically generate -> preview -> print complex RTF documents from within our D5 Apps, the building blocks (RTF format) of these documents are stored in the DB tables as Blob fields. Due to the limitation of QuickReport (we use 3.8 Std) - e.g. QRRichText/QRDBR