eDocEngine VCL v4.0.0.154
Create documents, spreadsheets and images, and export reports in 20 formats

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Supported IDEs

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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
Support for adding digital signatures
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
Unicode support
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
Support for XLSX-format output
Support for Unicode (in Excel)
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.

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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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• 30-day moneyback guarantee
• Clear, straightforward, and hassle-free licensing
• Perpetual use license
• Unlimited royalty-free commercial distribution of end-user products
• Free major and minor updates for 12 months
• Free e-mail support for 12 months
• Subscription renewal only when required
  • 60% discount off prevailing price if renewal is made within 2 years of initial purchase (new subscription will begin from the day of expiry of the previous subscription)
  • 20% discount off prevailing price if renewal is made after 2 years of initial purchase (new subscription will begin from the day of purchase of the new subscription)
• 15% discount for existing customers buying other Gnostice products
• Upgrade to a higher edition of the same product by paying only the difference (if the upgrade is made within 2 years of initial purchase)

* - Effective from January 1, 2012.

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VCL Developer Tools

Licensing and Purchasing Guide

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History

Version 4.0.0.154 - May 3, 2013

• Enhanced
  • General
    • Added support for RAD Studio XE4.
    • Added support for FastReport 4 for Delphi/C++Builder XE4.
• Fixed
  • Report Export
    • Text engine: Text position is displaced with some reports.
    • Text engine: Right-aligned text is omitted with some reports.

Version 4.0.0.150 - April 26, 2013

• Enhanced
  • Output from HTML and XHTML engines is now fully compliant with W3C specifications.
  • Added support for RaveReport 11 for Delphi/C++ Builder XE3.
• Fixed
  • Excel: File corruption due to special characters such as <, >, &, " and ' in input string.
  • PDF: Can't change JPEG size exception.
  • PDF: Auto detection of URLs in text to encode as hyperlinks missing out links that contained "https", ";" (semicolons) and ":" (colons).
  • PDF: Displacement of borders when exporting reports.
  • Excel: Memory leak in some cases with exporting reports.
  • Excel: Broken support for filling an individual cell with color.
  • Excel: File gets corrupted when number of rows exceeds 65536.

Version 4.0.0.135 - March 15, 2013

• Enhanced
  • Excel engine: Added Unicode support for RAD Studio 2007 and older versions
  • Excel engine: Added new property NumberFormatDecimalPlaces to specify decimal places for numbers.
  • Excel engine: Added option for specifying alignment in Setup dialog.
• Fixed
  • Excel engine: File corruption in locales where decimal separator is comma (,)
  • Excel engine: File corruption due to complex formatting of data in exported reports
  • Excel engine: Numbers with zero (0) as value do not get encoded when AutoFormatCells is set to true
  • PDF engine: Images get displaced when DPI is changed from default (96)
  • PDF Engine: Localization issues in setup dialog
  • Memory leaks in report-export to PDF
  • Incompatibility of Setup dialog in Delphi 6 and Delphi 7
  • Text gets clipped at high resolutions in report-export to PDF

Version 4 - February 1, 2013

• Enhanced
  • New Excel engine for generating spreadsheets in XLSX format
  • Support for on-the-fly digital signing in PDF engine
  • Fast automatic image de-duplication in PDF, HTML, XHTML and Excel document-creation engines
  • Email adapter technology to integrate with any email/Internet components
  • Improved accuracy of columniation of text when exporting tabular reports to Excel
  • Unicode support for Excel output
  • Support for long strings greater than 256 characters in Excel output
  • Support for generating Excel output with more than 65K rows
• Fixed
  • Displacement of text in tables rendered by PDF Engine
  • Access violation in Export interface installer

Version 3.0.4.387 - December 4, 2012

• Enhanced
  • Added Export Interface installer support for Delphi XE3
• Resolved
  • Document properties get corrupted if PDF document is encrypted

Version 3.0.4.366 - September 27, 2012

• Introduced
  • Support for RAD Studio XE3
  • Support for Report Builder 14 in all compatible IDEs
• Fixed
  • Text engine: Right-aligned numbers (from source document) are not properly aligned.
  • PDF engine: Character overlap in text rendered by TextBox method - when the text contains newline character and certain non-alphanumeric characters such as the Euro (€) symbol
  • When compiled to a DLL, GDI code causes end-user application to hang

Version 3.0.4.290 - April 19, 2012

• Fixed
  • RoundRect method does not draw border when pen width is set to zero
  • DrawRichText method unnecessarily adds a new page sometimes
  • Image issues in ReportBuilder-to-RTF export
  • Images are missing in DevExpress Printing System-to-PDF export
  • Header and footer are missing in TScaleRichView-to-PDF export
  • Some images are stretched in Quickreport-to-PDF export
  • Some text characters are filled in metafile-to-PDF conversions
  • Adobe Reader error reported with some EMF-to-PDF conversions

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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Licensing and Purchasing Guide

• Our Aim: The license agreements are intended to be fair to both our customers and the team that made the products. Hence, they safeguard the interest of all stakeholders while keeping the terms simple and straightforward.
• Our Considerations:
  • Broad range of applications our customers make.
  • Nature of our components - domain-specific and providing functionality of full-fledged applications
• Our License Types:
  • Trial License
  • Developer Subscription
  • Special Application License
  • SDK License
  • OEM License
  • Student Academic License
  • Source Code License
  • Thought Leader/Technical Evangelist License
• Choosing Your License:
  • For Development: Get one DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION for each developer. With one DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION, a developer can install the GNOSTICE PRODUCT in one desktop and one laptop that the developer uses. For installing on additional computers, buy additional DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTIONS.
  • For Distribution:
    • If the software that you are creating is an independent application where GNOSTICE PRODUCT is providing supplementary functionality (say an end-user desktop/server/Web application such as ERP, CRM, DMS, accounting application…), you do not need to pay additional royalty. Your purchase of DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION(S) is enough.
    • If the software that you are creating is heavily dependent on the GNOSTICE PRODUCT (such as end-user desktop/server/Web-based document viewers, editors, and converters…), get a SPECIAL APPLICATION LICENSE in addition to your DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION(S).
    • If the software that you are creating is a developer tool and exposes functionality provided by the GNOSTICE PRODUCT using an application programming interface (API) (say a component library or a Web API), then get an SDK LICENSE in addition to your DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION(S).
    • If the software that you are creating is a developer tool (say an IDE) AND bundles the GNOSTICE PRODUCT in a non-compiled form, then get an OEM LICENSE in addition to your DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION(S).
    • If you are a student and want to use the GNOSTICE PRODUCT for your project work, then you can get the low-priced STUDENT ACADEMIC LICENSE instead of the more expensive DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION.
• Non-Profit Organizations: Giving discounts for non-profit organizations requires us to be judgemental about their intentions and practices. For this reason, we provide discounts only to students. It requires limited scrutiny and involves no discrimination. This is a convenient policy and we would like to stick with it. Please excuse us if you are a non-profit looking for a discount. We will not be able to help you in that regard.
• License Enforcement Techniques: When installing the GNOSTICE PRODUCT, the installation program may require an Internet connection.
• Assigning an automated build computer: With your first DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION, you get to designate one computer as a BUILD MACHINE. For your second BUILD MACHINE, you need to have procured at least 6 DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTIONS. For your third free BUILD MACHINE, you should have procured at least 11 SUBSCRIPTION licenses. For every five DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTIONS that you have purchased after your first DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION, you can designate only one BUILD MACHINE for free. This restriction is applicable only to computers designated as BUILD MACHINES for free. It does not affect your right to create builds on any computer for which you have procured a DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION.
• Renewal, Upgrade and Support Policy:
  • Get discounts on volume purchases
  • Pay only 40% of prevailing price to renew the subscription
  • Upgrade to parent-product bouquets without losing money - pay only the difference
  • Free major and minor updates for 12 months
  • Free e-mail support for 12 months

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