eDocEngine VCL v3.0.4.269
Create documents, spreadsheets and images, and export reports in 18 formats

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Supported IDEs

IDEs supported by the Professional edition are mentioned below.

For Delphi 5 Users: Because of maintenance issues, Delphi 5 is supported only if you purchase eDocEngine with source code. As the demo (trial) version of eDocEngine does not contain full source code, it may not work with Delphi 5. However, eDocEngine purchased with source code will work in Delphi 5.

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Trial Limitations

Trial versions have the following limitations.

• Created documents will be limited to 5 pages.
• Each page of the created document will contain trial marks.

Features

Features provided by various editions of eDocEngine VCL are listed here. (For system requirements, click here.)

Feature Matrix By Edition

Features By Category
General Features and I/O Support
Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support
3rd-Party / Reporting tools Support
File Formats Support
PDF Document / Forms Creation Support
RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support
Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support
General Features and I/O Support	Professional
100% TCanvas, Windows® GDI functions
Include all content element types [Text, Image, Shape…] (where supported)
Add rotated text and Images (where supported)
Save to file and memory stream
Page Producer component to automatically write to HTTP Response
Set master unit of measurement [inch, cm…]
Automatically open document after creation
Automatically email document after creation
Convert metafiles retaining vector graphics
Sharable settings component
Save and Restore engine settings
Page setup
Choose from pre-defined paper
Set custom paper sizes
Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support	Professional
Run-time Setup Dialogs enhanced for greater ease of use and appearance.
Email options in setup dialog and accessible from Object Inspector for one-step export-email.
Output whole paragraphs with single command
Include RichText as RichText
RichText rendering support as a standard procedure (DrawRichText). All content supported by TRichEdit can be rendered
Unicode support added for text rendering
Table drawing functions, with full control
Table drawing - word wrap support for Title Row for each column
Auto pagination for text output as single line and paragraphs
Support for Variables / Place holders for Text rendering. Built-in and user-defined variables supported. Built-in variables include Page#, Total Pages, Date and Time.
Automatically parse and activate URLs: ftp://, http://, email, file://
Header/Footer control
Store document information (where supported)
Insert backgrounds - image and text
Insert watermarks and stampings (insert any type of content element - metafile, image, text, including combination of elements)
3rd-Party / Reporting tools Support	Professional
Auto alignment of text for Excel export. New properties ApplyAlignment and MultiPass provide greater control.
Word wrapping of cell text for Excel export. New property WordWrap controls option.
Optimized image rendering: Storing a reused image only once in the PDF using OnEncodeGraphic and OnEncodeGraphicDone events. Greatly reduces file sizes when images are repeated.
QuickReport Export
ReportBuilder Export
FastReport Export (FR v2.x and above)
Rave Reports Export
AceReporter Export
GmPrintSuite Export
TRichView Export
ThtmlViewer Export
Express Printing System Export
TMS Grid Export
WPTools WPRichText
ScaleRichView Export
File Formats Support	Professional
PDF
Other Document Formats: RTF, HTML, XHTML
Excel
Other Spreadsheet and Text Formats: Quattro Pro, Lotus 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, Text and CSV
TIFF, PNG, SVG
Other Graphic Formats: JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF, WMF
Windows® Clipboard
PDF Document / Forms Creation Support	Professional
Full Unicode support
Support for all non-Latin languages and mixed language strings
Support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Farsi or Hebrew in all bidirectional text modes (in TBiDiMode)
Automatic font mapping and compact subset embedding of fonts
TrueType font embedding modes - full, subset, and no embedding
Specify PDF compression settings
Store images as zipped bitmap and JPEG
Specify document information properties
Vertical text rendering
Insert large JPEG image files directly into the PDF document
Insert all types of Annotations: FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, StrikeOut, Stamp, Ink.
File Attachment: Support for attaching any type of external file to the created PDF.
Set any type of Action to links/annotations: GoToR, Launch, Named, JavaScript.
Support for inserting Custom Document Information. Write XMP metadata of document to insert custom document information and make it accessible to applications that support XMP.
Support for actions on Document and Page events. JavaScript actions can be associated with document and page events such as Open, Close, Print, Save.
Support for associating all actions with annotations, bookmarks, and document and page events.
Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption
Set bookmarks with unlimited nesting levels
Add Text Note, Link and Widget Annotations
Add thumbnails
JavaScript Actions
Set viewer preferences
Interactive Forms creation (also known as AcroForms)
Interactive Forms - button actions for Submit and Reset
Interactive Forms - custom JavaScript button actions
Interactive Forms - submission format as HTML, FDF, XML
RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support	Professional
RTF: Store images as PNG, JPEG, Metafile and BMP
HTML, XHTML: Store images as PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP
Set tabs and output text at tab positions
Automatically parse and hyperlink URLs
Include images in binary encoding to reduce file size
HTML, XHTML: Build Table of Contents page
HTML, XHTML: Include page navigator with First, Prior, Next, Last and TOC links
HTML, XHTML: Set graphic and text based navigator buttons
HTML, XHTML: Set page to AutoScroll
Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support	Professional
Formula support (in Excel)
Store images as Metafile and BMP
Access individual cells to place content
Create workbooks with unlimited worksheets
Set row spacing and column spacing
Set individual column widths

System Requirements

Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.

Development Environments

For Delphi 5 Users: Because of maintenance issues, Delphi 5 is supported only if you purchase eDocEngine with source code. As the demo (trial) version of eDocEngine does not contain full source code, it may not work with Delphi 5. However, eDocEngine purchased with source code will work in Delphi 5.

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Volume Discounts

The following discounts are applicable for volume purchases of Developer Licenses.

Volume	Discount
2-5	10%
6-10	15%
11-20	20%
21 and above	25%

Sales Contact

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• Discounts on volume purchases
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History

Version 3.0.4.269 - January 18, 2012

• Enhanced
  • Support for ScaleRichView version v4.3.4 and later versions in Delphi 2009/2010/XE/XE2
  • Support for RAD Studio XE2 Update 3
  • Support for Report Builder 14 in Delphi 2010 and later versions
• Fixed
  • PDF text display issues encountered when DPI is greater than 96

Version 3.0.4.263 - October 7, 2011

• Enhanced
  • Support for RAD Studio XE2
  • Installation support for Rave Reports interface component in RAD Studio XE2
• Fixed
  • Shapes are rendered even after removing it from ItemsToRender property
  • Text color is not rendered correctly when exporting metafile-based reports
  • Annotations are not added when ActiveHyperLinks property is set to False
  • Some fonts (bullet points) are not rendered properly with subset font embedding
  • "Floating point division by zero" exception is raised with subset font embedding
  • Content is clipped when InputXRes or InputYRes is greater than 96

Version 3.0.3.236 - March 18, 2011

• Fixed
  • "Illegal operation 'q' in the text object" error with Adobe Reader v7
  • "Invalid floating point operation" exception while creating a PDF
  • Recompiler utility not including references to Indy packages (for EmailWithIndy option)
  • Incorrect PageSize settings when exporting a QuickReport file

Version 3.0.3.224 - February 21, 2011

• Enhanced
  • TIFF engine rewritten to support
    • CCITT3, CCITT4 and RLE compression methods
    • Viewing with Windows Picture and Fax viewer
• Fixed
  • Memory leaks with PDFEngine when creating PDF forms
  • Column overwriting issue with Excel engine
  • Barcode image rendering issue with QuickReport export
  • Background color rendering issue

Version 3.0.2.209 - December 17, 2010

• Enhanced
  • New help documentation with F1-key integration
• Fixed
  • Memory leaks when exporting ReportBuilder reports with TeeChart component.
  • Incorrect text-spacing with text containing some punctuation marks.
  • Exception raised by EncodeTextPart method when input string contained '%' character and angle of rotation was not between 0 and 360.
  • Export Interface Installer unaware of "DXVCL" environment variable set by Developer Express components.
  • THtmlViewer package not included by Export Interface Installer.

Version 3.0.1.205 - December 1, 2010

• Enhanced
  • Introduced a new property ApplyEmfCharSpacing under TgtPDFEngine.Preferences to toggle character spacing while rendering metafiles to PDF
• Fixed
  • Background color not rendered properly with some metafiles
  • Line-spacing issue when converting QuickReport files to PDF
  • Diacritic characters not rendered properly in RTF
  • Character-spacing issue when converting FastReport files to RTF
  • Installation problems with export interfaces for TMSGrid and DevExpress components
  • Character-spacing issues in RTL text
  • Character-spacing issues in composite glyphs such as those used with Hindi or Thai (diacritic characters)

Version 3.0.1.193 - October 29, 2010

• Enhanced
  • Support for automatic substitution of digits in Latin script to Arabic script in Arabic locale
• Fixed
  • Transparency issue when exporting to PDF from DevExpress Printing System
  • Text overlapping issue when using strings with both right-to-left and left-to-right "bidi" modes
  • "Index out of bounds" error when text elements are excluded in the "ItemToRender" property

Version 3.0.1.181 - September 6, 2010

• Enhanced
  • Support for RAD Studio XE
  • Reorganized shared sources and packages for cleaner installation and compatibility with PDFtoolkit
  • Updates to Export Interface Installer for smoother installation of export interface components.

Version 3.0.1 (Build 173) - August 25, 2010

• Enhanced
  • Export Interface Installer now generates its log file in the "My Documents\Gnostice\eDocEngine" folder to avoid "write" permission issues in Vista/Windows 7
  • v2-to-v3 Converter application will ignore already converted units in "Uses" clause
  • Ready for RAD Studio XE
• Fixed
  • Character width problems with FixedPitch fonts - with and without font embedding
  • Exception in class EOleSysError with message "CoInitialize has not been called" when PDFEngine was executed in a thread.
  • Some text in non-Latin languages incorrectly detected as ANSI string
  • Incorrect handling of diacritic characters
  • Range check error with PDF Engine when encoding text
  • Arial Unicode MS incorrectly replaced with Arial
  • File extension added to output file name more than once
  • Transparency issues with Richtext elements and images
  • Export Interface Installer support for all reporting tools in C++Builder 2010/2009/2007/2006
  • Export Interface Installer support for Rave Reports in C++Builder 6

Version 3 - July 16, 2010

• Enhanced
  • Full Unicode support in PDF-creation engine
    • Text processing does not depend on Font.Charset
    • Automatic font matching
      • Can handle mixed-language strings (requiring more than one font)
      • No need to set default font to 'Arial Unicode MS' to support non-Latin languages
    • Full support for right-to-left languages and all bidirectional text modes available in TBidiMode
  • PDF creation speed improvements
  • PDF creation file size improvements including improved subset embedding of fonts
  • Support for rendering any third-party image class instance compatible with TGraphic
  • Support for Delphi TGIFImage in 2009 and later IDEs
  • Full support for Delphi 5/6/7/2005/2006/2007/2009/2010 and C++Builder 6/2006/2007/2009/2010
  • Support for transparent text rendering in RichText control in ReportBuilder reports
  • Overhauled Excel engine with support for Excel 2007 in Windows 7
  • Re-engineered spreadsheet engine to export report columns accurately, even across multiple pages and worksheets
  • Excel: Non-exception-based automatic cell-type detection
• Resolved
  • Issues related to rendering at higher input DPI resolved
  • Incorrect PDF clipping in any DPI
  • Text using non-TrueType fonts not displayed
  • Incorrect character spacing with EMF-to-PDF conversion
  • File name truncation issue
  • Speed issues with report export
  • FontEmbedExcludeList causes text not to be displayed
  • AceReporter Export Interface packages cleaned up
  • Transparent image export with DevExpress printing system
  • EMF-to-RTF fails to export some pages
  • Floating point divide by zero error when dealing with small font sizes
  • Packages renamed based on Delphi's compiler version to provide uniform support for Delphi and C++Builder
  • Excel engine: Text cells detected as percentage values issues solved
  • Text rendering issue when font size is less than zero
  • Text rendering issue when font size is less than zero
  • Plus other minor fixes and optimizations

Version 2.5.2 - September 1, 2009

• Enhancements
  • General
    • Support for Delphi 2010
    • Mailing support for Indy v10.2.5
  • HTML and Text Generation
    • OnNeedFileName event for changing the file name at run time
• Resolved
  • General
    • Warnings caused by changes introduced in Delphi 2009
    • Paragraph rendering when AutoPaginate is set to true
    • Rendering of bullet points
    • Some memory leaks
  • PDF Generation
    • Text rendering - access violation and overlapping of text
    • PDF documents with non-ASCII characters causing printing problems
    • Character spacing of Unicode characters
    • Some range-check errors
  • Excel Generation
    • AutoFormatCells property when applied to cells containing percentage values
  • Export Interfaces for Delphi Reporting Tools
    • Fastreport - Blank pages (except for last page) when printing

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Articles

Gnostice Newsletter articles are published every month. It contains technical articles related to Gnostice developer tools and office productivity applications. To subscribe to the newsletter, send a blank e-mail to info@gnostice.com with the "SUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.

June 2011
Convert Multipage TIFF To PDF Using eDocEngine VCL

Also using Erik Van Bilsen's Delphi GDI+ library.

December 2010
How To Convert XML To PDF Using Delphi

Using eDocEngine VCL and Pbear's THTMLViewer

November 2010
A Delphi Mail-Merge Example With eDocEngine VCL 3

Using not just fake names and addresses, but also aliens, super heroes and rocks from outer space.

September 2010
Fun With Delphi and Dynamic Image Creation

Fun at work with eDocEngine VCL.

July 2010
What's New In eDocEngine V3

Version 3 is out. Here are some highlights from the release note.

July 2010
Unicode Support In eDocEngine v3

Native support for mixed language text, right-to-left languages and bi-directional writing modes.

July 2008
Programming the Windows Clipboard using eDocEngine

Learn how to use the clipboard engine.

June 2008
Exporting TRichView (.RVF) Files to PDF Using eDocEngine VCL

Learn to create a PDF version of your TRichView files in just five lines of code.

December 2007
How To Render HTML-Formatted Text In PDF

Learn how to render HTML-formatted text in PDF using eDocEngine VCL.

September 2007
Implementing Mail Merge In Electronic Document Creation

Using custom placeholders in strings written to documents

July 2007
How To Convert Image Files To PDF Using eDocEngine VCL

Do you want to convert image formats such as EMF, WMF, BMP and JPEG to PDF?

April 2007
Generating More User-Friendly Excel Documents When Using eDocEngine

Do you want to easily get better Excel output when creating Excel documents using eDocEngine? This article gives you some tips that you can use to make the generated Excel documents look better, be more useable and readable.

February 2007
Reusing Images in ReportBuilder Reports While Exporting to PDF

Does your ReportBuilder report contain logos in the page header / footer that repeat on every page? Do you wish to store only a single copy of the logo when you export the report to PDF and greatly reduce your PDF file size? This article will illustrate how to achieve this using Gnostice eDocEngine VCL along with Gnostice ReportBuilder Export Interface.

January 2007
Inserting/Adding Bookmarks To PDF Documents Exported From Reports

Would you like to add navigational features to PDF documents exported from your reports? This article will give you a startup on how to do this using eDocEngine VCL.

October 2006
How To Selectively Embed Fonts When Creating PDF Files

Are embedded TrueType fonts consuming too much file size in the PDF files you create? How about embedding fonts selectively - only the ones you need to. Here is the trick to do just that!