| Feature Description |
Professional |
ReportExport |
| General Features and I/O Support |
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| Advanced Features |
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Partial |
| Generic Document Creation Support |
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Partial |
| Reporting tools Support |
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| More 3rd-Party tools Support |
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| File Formats Support |
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Partial |
| PDF Document Creation Support |
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Partial |
| PDF Forms Creation Support |
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| RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support |
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Partial |
| Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support |
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Partial |
| General Features and I/O Support |
| 100% TCanvas, Windows® GDI functions |
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| Include all content element types [Text, Image, Shape…] (where supported) |
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| Add rotated text and Images (where supported) |
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| Save to file and memory stream |
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| Page Producer component to automatically write to HTTP Response |
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| Set master unit of measurement [inch, cm…] |
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| Automatically open document after creation |
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| Automatically email document after creation |
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| Enhanced! Convert metafiles retaining vector graphics |
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| Sharable settings component |
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| Save and Restore engine settings |
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| Page setup |
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| Choose from pre-defined paper |
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| Set custom paper sizes |
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| Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support |
| Enhanced! Run-time Setup Dialogs enhanced for greater ease of use and appearance. |
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| New! Email options in setup dialog and accessible from Object Inspector for one-step export-email. |
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| Output whole paragraphs with single command |
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| Include RichText as RichText |
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| New! RichText rendering support as a standard procedure (DrawRichText). All content supported by TRichEdit can be rendered |
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| New! Unicode support added for text rendering |
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| Enhanced! Table drawing functions, with full control |
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| New! Table drawing - word wrap support for Title Row for each column |
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| New! Auto pagination for text output as single line and paragraphs |
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| New! 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. |
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| Enhanced! Automatically parse and activate URLs: ftp://, http://, email, file:// |
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| Enhanced! Header/Footer control |
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| Store document information (where supported) |
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| Insert backgrounds - image and text |
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| Insert watermarks and stampings (insert any type of content element - metafile, image, text, including combination of elements) |
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| 3rd-Party / Reporting tools Support |
| Enhanced! Auto alignment of text for Excel export. New properties ApplyAlignment and MultiPass provide greater control. |
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| Enhanced! Word wrapping of cell text for Excel export. New property WordWrap controls option. |
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| Enhanced! 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. |
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| QuickReport Export |
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| Enhanced! ReportBuilder Export |
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| FastReport Export (FR2+FR3) |
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| Rave Reports Export |
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| AceReporter Export |
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| GmPrintSuite Export |
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| TRichView Export |
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| ThtmlViewer Export |
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| Express Printing System Export |
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| TMS Grid Export |
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| File Formats Support |
| PDF |
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Partial |
| Other Document Formats: RTF, HTML, XHTML |
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| Excel |
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Partial |
| Other Spreadsheet and Text Formats: Quattro Pro, Lotus 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, Text and CSV |
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| TIFF, PNG, SVG |
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| Other Graphic Formats: JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF, WMF |
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| Windows® Clipboard |
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| PDF Document / Forms Creation Support |
| New! Vertical Text rendering |
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| New! Insert large JPEG image files directly into the PDF document |
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| New! Unicode support for Document Information and Bookmarks |
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| Store images as zipped bitmap and JPEG |
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| Use Compression |
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| Use TrueType fonts |
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| Embed TrueType fonts |
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| Enhanced! Subset fonts to reduce file size |
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| Enhanced! Support for all character sets - Eastern Europe , Chinese, Japanese… |
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| Enhanced! Optimized font subset embedding and Unicode characters support. Reduces file size to nearly 1/10 the original size. |
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| New! Insert all types of Annotations: FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, StrikeOut, Stamp, Ink. |
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| New! File Attachment: Support for attaching any type of external file to the created PDF. |
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| New! Set any type of Action to links/annotations: GoToR, Launch, Named, JavaScript. |
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| New! 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. |
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| New! Support for actions on Document and Page events. JavaScript actions can be associated with document and page events such as Open, Close, Print, Save. |
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| New! Support for associating all actions with annotations, bookmarks, and document and page events. |
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| Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption |
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| Set bookmarks with unlimited nesting levels |
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| Add Text Note, Link and Widget Annotations |
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| Add thumbnails |
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| JavaScript Actions |
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| Set viewer preferences |
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| Interactive Forms creation (also known as AcroForms) |
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| Interactive Forms - button actions for Submit and Reset |
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| Interactive Forms - custom JavaScript button actions |
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| Interactive Forms - submission format as HTML, FDF, XML |
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| RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support |
| RTF: Store images as PNG, JPEG, Metafile and BMP |
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| HTML, XHTML: Store images as PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP |
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| Set tabs and output text at tab positions |
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| Automatically parse and hyperlink URLs |
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| Include images in binary encoding to reduce file size |
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| HTML, XHTML: Build Table of Contents page |
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HTML, XHTML: Include page navigator with First, Prior, Next, Last and TOC links |
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| HTML, XHTML: Set graphic and text based navigator buttons |
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| HTML, XHTML: Set page to AutoScroll |
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| Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support |
| Formula support (in Excel) |
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| Store images as Metafile and BMP |
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| Access individual cells to place content |
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| Create workbooks with unlimited worksheets |
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| Set row spacing and column spacing |
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| Set individual column widths |
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