eDocEngine VCL
Create documents and reports in 18 formats

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Delphi C++Builder

Home » Newsletter » March 2012

By V. Subhash (German version)

eDocEngine VCL is a comprehensive e-document creation component suite for Delphi and C++Builder. eDocEngine provides document-creation components for creating content in several formats:

Document	PDF, RTF, HTML, XHTML, TXT…
Spreadsheet	EXCEL, CSV…
Raster Image	TIFF, JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG…
Vector Image	SVG, EMF and WMF

eDocEngine also ships with several export-interface components. These components interface with popular Delphi components and export their content.

Reporting Components	ReportBuilder, FastReport, Rave Report, QuickReport, AceReporter
Viewer/Export Components	TRichView, ScaleRichView, DevExpress Express Printing System, TMS Grid, ThtmlViewer, WPTools WPRichText…

These export-interface components can export content in all the formats supported by the document-creation components.

What Can You Do With eDocEngine?

• General
  • Create documents, spreadsheets, and images from scratch - in altogether 18 formats including PDF, RTF, HTML, XHTML, Excel, Quattro Pro, Lotus 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, Text and CSV, TIFF, PNG, SVG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF & WMF
  • Save created content to files and streams
  • Export content from metafiles, RTF documents, XML documents, single-frame images, multi-page TIFF…
  • Export content from AceReporter, DevExpress Express Printing System, FastReport, QuickReport, Rave Reports, ReportBuilder, TRichView, ScaleRichView, ThtmlViewer, TMS Grid, WPTools WPRichText…
  • Export content to Windows Clipboard
  • Automatically display (launch) or e-mail created documents
• Advanced Content Creation
  • Directly draw to canvas - reuse existing GDI/TCanvas code (without any modification)
  • Generate dynamic images
  • Render text including whole paragraphs
  • Export rich text as rich text
  • Render auto-text (built-in and user-defined run-time placeholders)
  • Render rotated images
  • Create tables (with automatic word wrapping)
  • Add headers and footers
  • Automatically paginate when content overflows
  • Specify document information properties
  • Spreadsheets: Access individual cells and set their values/properties
  • Spreadsheets: Render cells (even with formula values), tables, images, worksheets
• Special PDF Features
  • Render vertical text
  • Render HTML-formatted strings on PDF
  • Render Unicode (non-Latin and mixed-language) text
  • Render right-to-left language text (Arabic, Farsi or Hebrew) using any bidirectional text mode defined in TBiDiMode
  • Create compact hi-fidelity documents - using automatic font mapping & subset embedding of fonts
  • Add PDF actions, form fields, annotations, markups, file attachments, watermarks, bookmarks, thumbnails, viewer preferences