Gnostice Document Studio Delphi
Multi-format document-processing component suite for Delphi/C++Builder developers

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Features

Gnostice Document Studio Delphi supports the following features. (For system requirements, click here.)

Feature Matrix By Edition

Features By Category
Input/Output
Viewing
Printing
Conversion
General
Report-Export
FireMonkey Viewer
StarDocs Document Server
Input/Output	Embarcadero Edition	Professional	Ultimate
Load from and save to DB
Load from and save to files
Load from and save to streams
Viewing	Embarcadero Edition	Professional	Ultimate
DOCX, DOC - Image Positioning - inline with text
DOCX, DOC - Images - GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF
DOCX, DOC - Layout - Print
DOCX, DOC - Rendered elements - Sections, pages, paragraphs, columns, images
DOCX, DOC - Richly formatted paragraphs - font styles, alignment
DOCX, DOC - Text formatting - font, size, weight, styles, style hierarchy
Formats - PDF, DOCX, DOC, BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF, EMF, and (single-page and multi-page) TIFF	PDF
Images - BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF, EMF, and (single-page and multi-page) TIFF
Page zooming and navigation using keyboard and mouse
PDF - Fonts - Type 1, Type 2 or CFF, TrueType
PDF - Images - BMP, JPEG, CCITTFax, JBIG2
PDF - Text, shapes, images, form fields (static only)
Printing	Embarcadero Edition	Professional	Ultimate
DOCX, DOC - Page Orientation - Landscape
DOCX, DOC - Page Positioning - Centered, Original
DOCX, DOC - Page Resizing - Original, Fit, Shrink
DOCX, DOC - Rendered elements - Sections, pages, paragraphs, columns, images
Formats - PDF, DOCX, DOC, BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF, EMF, and (single-page and multi-page) TIFF	PDF
High-resolution printing
Images - BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF, EMF, and (single-page and multi-page) TIFF
PDF - Print page sub ranges (All, even, odd and custom-selected pages)
PDF - Scaling to printable area
Conversion	Embarcadero Edition	Professional	Ultimate
[VCL and FMX] PDF, DOCX, and images to platform supported image formats
[VCL] PDF, DOCX, and Windows supported image formats to PDF
General	Embarcadero Edition	Professional	Ultimate
Source code
Report-Export	Embarcadero Edition	Professional	Ultimate
FastReport reports to PDF, PDF/A, XLSX, RTF, HTML, XHTML, TXT, SVG, PNG, JPEG, and GIF
ReportBuilder reports to PDF, PDF/A, XLSX, RTF, HTML, XHTML, TXT, SVG, PNG, JPEG, and GIF
QuickReport reports to PDF, PDF/A, XLSX, RTF, HTML, XHTML, TXT, SVG, PNG, JPEG, and GIF
ACE Reporter reports to PDF, PDF/A, XLSX, RTF, HTML, XHTML, TXT, SVG, PNG, JPEG, and GIF
FireMonkey Viewer	Embarcadero Edition	Professional	Ultimate
Android - PDF, DOCX, Images (BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF)	PDF
iOS - PDF, DOCX, and images (BMP, JPEG, PNG, single-frame† TIFF, GIF)	PDF
Mac OS X - PDF, DOCX, DOC, and images (BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF)	PDF
Windows - PDF, DOCX, DOC, and images (BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF)	PDF
StarDocs Document Server	Embarcadero Edition	Professional	Ultimate
Gnostice StarDocs On-Premises Document Server Viewer edition. Includes one Development, Test, Staging and Production License. With the StarDocs product you can add an HTML5 Document Viewer in your web applications using REST APIs. Supported formats include PDF, DOCX, BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF, EMF, and (single-page) TIFF. StarDocs Document Server comes with SDKs for JavaScript, Delphi, .NET, and Java.

System Requirements

Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.

Development Environments

Version	Delphi		C++Builder
	32-bit	64-bit	32-bit	64-bit
XE2 VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
XE3 VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
XE4 VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
XE5 VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
XE6 VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
XE7 VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
XE8 VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
10 Seattle VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
10.1 Berlin VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
10.1 Berlin FMX Windows	Yes	Yes	No	No
10.1 Berlin FMX Mac OS X	Yes	NA	No	NA
10.1 Berlin FMX iOS simulator	Yes	NA	NA	NA
10.1 Berlin FMX iOS device	Yes	Yes	No	No
10.1 Berlin FMX Android device	Yes	NA	No	NA
10.2 Tokyo VCL	Yes	Yes	No	No
10.2 Tokyo FMX Windows	Yes	Yes	No	No
10.2 Tokyo FMX Mac OS X	Yes	NA	No	NA
10.2 Tokyo FMX iOS simulator	Yes	NA	NA	NA
10.2 Tokyo FMX iOS device	Yes	Yes	No	No
10.2 Tokyo FMX Android device	Yes	NA	No	NA
10.3 Rio VCL	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.3 Rio FMX Windows	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.3 Rio FMX Mac OS X	Yes	Yes	No	NA
10.3 Rio FMX iOS simulator	Yes	Yes	NA	NA
10.3 Rio FMX iOS device	Yes	Yes	No	No
10.3 Rio FMX Android device	Yes	Yes	No	NA
10.4 Sydney VCL	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.4 Sydney FMX Windows	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.4 Sydney FMX Mac OS X	Yes	Yes	No	NA
10.4 Sydney FMX iOS simulator	Yes	Yes	NA	NA
10.4 Sydney FMX iOS device	Yes	Yes	No	No
10.4 Sydney FMX Android device	Yes	Yes	No	NA
11.x VCL	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
11.x FMX Windows	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
11.x FMX Mac OS X	Yes	Yes	No	NA
11.x FMX iOS simulator	Yes	Yes	NA	NA
11.x FMX iOS device	Yes	Yes	No	No
11.x FMX Android device	Yes	Yes	No	NA
12.x VCL	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
12.x FMX Windows	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
12.x FMX Mac OS X	Yes	Yes	No	NA
12.x FMX iOS simulator	Yes	Yes	NA	NA
12.x FMX iOS device	Yes	Yes	No	No
12.x FMX Android device	Yes	Yes	No	NA

Buy Now

Every Delphi/C++Builder product purchased from Gnostice is backed* by:

• 30-day money-back 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 (to get all updates and support for another 12 months)
  • 60% discount off prevailing price if renewal is made within 1 year of expiry of the subscription - new subscription will begin from the day of expiry of the previous subscription.
  • 40% discount off prevailing price if renewal is made after 1 year but within 3 years of expiry of the subscription - new subscription will begin from the day of purchase of the new subscription.
  • 15% discount off prevailing price if renewal is made after 3 years of expiry of the subscription - new subscription will begin from the day of purchase of the new subscription.
• Upgrade to a higher edition of the same product by paying only the difference (if the upgrade is made within 1 year of expiry of the subscription)

* - Effective from September 9, 2015.

All prices are exclusive of VAT. VAT is applicable based on tax laws in your country. The tax rate will be automatically applied based on rules of the relevant country.

New Licenses

New customers: Please find appropriate buy links to our share-it! online store in the tables below.
Existing customers: To obtain upgrade/renewal discounts, please send a mail to sales@gnostice.com with details of your last purchase of the product.

Licensing and Purchasing Guide

For an informed purchase, please consult our License Agreements, and our Licensing and Purchasing Guide.

History

Version 2015 R7 - June 19, 2015

• Enhanced
  • General
    • Report export configurator included to configure report-export controls for installed reporting tool versions.
  • Multi-format Document Viewing
    • View PDF, DOCX and image files on FireMonkey mobile and desktop DataSnap applications.
  • Multi-Format Report-Export
    • Introduced report-export components for QuickReport, ReportBuilder and ACE Reporter.
    • Support for PDF/A-2B and PDF/A-3B output.
    • Support for ZUGFeRD electronic invoicing standard for PDF/A-3B documents.
    • Support for PDF digital signatures. Signature properties can be set through EncodersSettings.
    • Support for adding document-level PDF attachments.
    • Introduced events - AfterBeginJob, AfterEndJob, BeforeBeginJob, BeforeEndjob.
• Fixed
  • Multi-Format Document Viewing
    • VCL
      • Setting ZoomMode has no effect.
      • PDF: Memory leak when viewing some PDF documents.
    • FireMonkey
      • Introduced FileName property, through which document viewer can be LiveBound to fields containing input file(s) paths.
      • New demo showing DataSnap document handler for server and client to display documents on FMX desktop and mobile clients
      • Setting ZoomMode has no effect at design-time.

Version 2015 R6 - May 20, 2015

• Enhanced
  • Multi-Format Report-Export
    • TgtFRExport component for exporting FastReport reports to PDF, PDF/A, RTF, HTML, plain text and image formats.
    • ExportToFile and ExportToStream methods to programmatically export reports.
    • EncodersSettings property for configuring format-specific settings.
    • VisibleFormats property to specify output formats to be available in the Report Preview.
    • OpenAfterExport property to automatically open the output document after it is saved to file.
• Fixed
  • Multi-Format Document Viewing
    • Several memory leaks.

Version 2015 R5 - April 10, 2015

• Enhanced
  • General
    • Added support for RAD Studio XE8.
• Fixed
  • General
    • Installer duplicates library paths in RAD Studio XE6 and later versions.

Version 2015 R4 - March 13, 2015

• Enhanced
  • Multi-format Document Viewing - VCL
    • PDF: Interactive form-filling using viewer.
    • PDF: Data-aware form-filling using viewer.
    • New SaveToFile and SaveToStream methods in viewer.
    • New Preferences.AllowedOperations property in viewer.
    • New FieldDataSource property in viewer.
    • New FieldMapping(FieldName) function in viewer.
    • New OnDocItemActivity event in viewer.
  • Multi-format Document Processing
    • Export PDF form data into database using new vcl.gtxDocumentDataExtractor helper unit.
  • General
    • Added demo project for document data upload.
    • Added demo project for data-aware form-filling.
• Fixed
  • Multi-format Document Viewing
    • Dotted lines are not rendered in in some PDFs
    • Images are not rendered properly in some PDFs.

Version 2015 R3 - February 21, 2015

• Fixed
  • General
    • C++Builder compilation issue in new JBIG2 decoder.
  • Multi-Format Document Viewing
    • PDF: Some masked JBIG2 images are not rendered properly.
    • PDF: Images with predictor value equal to 10 are not rendered properly.
    • PDF: Memory leaks when viewing certain types of PDF documents on 64-bit platforms.
  • Multi-Format Document Printing
    • Only one copy created irrespective of value set for PrintManager.Copies.
• Changed
  • Multi-Format Document Viewing
    • VCL - Prefix of Zoom.ZoomMode enum values changed from "sztFit" to "zmFit" for a more logical naming convention.

Version 2015 R2 - February 3, 2015

• Enhanced
  • Multi-format Document Viewing - VCL
    • PDF: Added support for JBIG2 images using new all-Delphi JBIG2 decoder for clean cross-platform compatibility and C++Builder support.
  • Multi-format Document Printing - VCL
    • Added PageSize property to TgtBeginPrintJobEventArgs - for obtaining the size of a page before it is printed.
Fixed
• Multi-format Document Viewing - VCL
  • PDF: Pages of documents containing DCT-encoded image(s) with soft mask are rendered blank.
  • PDF: Text overlaps when rendering some documents.
  • PDF: 'Strasa' symbol is not rendered for some documents.
  • Several access violations and memory leaks.
• Multi-format Document Printing
  • Value set for TgtDocumentPrinter.PrintManager.Copies is not applied correctly.

Version 2015 R1 - January 2, 2015

• Enhanced
  • FMX Windows/iOS/Android
    • Support for latest Delphi SDK for Gnostice StarDocs.
  • VCL Windows
    • Improved PDF-to-RTF conversion accuracy.
• Fixed
  • FMX Windows
    • Multi-format document viewing
      • Several access violations and memory leaks.
      • Some text is not displayed in some PDFs.
  • VCL Windows
    • Multi-format document conversion
      • 'File not found' exception encountered when converting from any format to text.
    • Multi-format document viewing & printing
      • Memory leaks with some PDFs in 64-bit targets.
      • Text is not displayed in some PDFs in 64-bit targets.
      • Error encountered if print job is cancelled before completion - occurs with software printers.

Version 2014 R6 - December 12, 2014

• Enhanced
  • VCL Document Conversion
    • Added support for DOCX-to-text conversion.
    • Added support for images-to-RTF conversion.
    • Added support for PDF-to-RTF conversion [Preview]. Supported features include:
      • Text
      • Font
      • Styles - Subscript and superscript
      • Unicode text
      • Paragraphs
      • Alignment
      • Indents: Left, right, first line, hanging
      • Line spacing: Multiple (Single/1.5/2.0/3.0/...)
      • Tables: Single-level paragraphs with borders
      • Sections: Multi-column section

Version 2014 R5 - November 28, 2014

• Enhancements
  • General
    • Support for RAD Studio XE7 Update 1
  • Document Conversion
    • Added support for PDF-to-text conversion.
    • Added option to set DPI for output images (TgtImageEncoderParams.Resolution.DPIX and TgtImageEncoderParams.Resolution.DPIY)
• Fixed
  • Document Conversion
    • Abstract error encountered while calling TgtDocumentConverter.ConvertToStream() - OnNeedOutputStream event handler is called even if unassigned
  • Document Rendering
    • VCL
      • Masked grayscale images in PDF documents are rendered with low quality
      • PDF images with "color key mask" and RGB/CMYK colorspace are not rendered properly.
      • "$ is not a valid integer" exception with DOCX files created using Quickoffice.

Version 2014 R4 - November 14, 2014

• Enhancements
  • Document Viewing
    • FMX Windows
      • Introduced standard actions in Document Viewer component - create a viewer toolbar without writing any code
• Fixed
  • General
    • Uninstaller becomes unresponsive after completion.
  • PDF Rendering
    • VCL
      • Masked grayscale images are rendered with low quality
    • FMX Windows
      • Access violation error with some PDF documents
    • VCL & FMX Windows
      • Invalid catalog error thrown for valid PDF documents
      • Bold text is not rendered as bold if its font is not embedded

Version 2014 R3 - October 30, 2014

• Enhanced
  • General
    • Added support for RAD Studio XE7.
  • Document Viewing
    • Introduced FireMonkey document viewer
      • Self-contained document-viewing ability on
        • Windows:
          • Images - BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF
          • PDF
            • Text using system fonts
            • Vector drawings (shapes)
            • RGB images
        • Mac OS X
          • PDF
          • Images - BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF
        • iOS [Ultimate edition only]
          • Single-page PDFs
          • Images - BMP, JPEG, PNG, single-frame TIFF, GIF
        • Android [Ultimate edition only]
          • Images - BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, CUR, ICO
      • Support for seamlessly offloading document-processing (PDF, DOCX, and images) to Gnostice StarDocs Server on all FireMonkey platforms

Version 2014 R2 - April 21, 2014

• Enhanced
  • General
    • Added support for RAD Studio XE6.
    • Included instructions and demos for C++Builder. (Please refer readme.txt for complete details.)
• Fixed
  • General
    • Installation error in RAD Studio XE3.

Version 2014 R1 - January 31, 2014

• Enhanced
  • PDF Rendering
    • Support for rendering "Masked Images"
      • Color Key mask
      • Explicit mask
      • Image mask
      • Soft mask
  • Document Viewing
    • Introduced new extensible and pluggable navigation pane component to support end-user interactivity and add additional functionality. Currently supports PDF bookmarks includes API to:
      • control visibility - Auto, Always & Never
      • register user controls derived from the navigation pane component to add support for
        • currently unsupported features such as thumbnails, layers or signatures
        • custom application-specific requirements
• Changed
  • DocumentViewer.Zoom.ZoomType is renamed to ZoomMode
  • AllowedAttempts removed from password event arguments
  • Setting Preferences.Password.AllowedAttempts to 0 will allow unlimited number of tries in Viewer and Converter
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing and printing
    • Page rendered blank when page size rectangle in the document is specified in reverse order, for example, (0, 1200, 800, 0).

Version 2013 R2 - December 5, 2013

• Enhanced
  • DOCX Rendering
    • Indentation - Left, Right, FirstLine, Hanging
    • Wrapping around images - Behind text, In front of text, Top and bottom, Square (Basic)
    • Improved spacing and alignment of text
  • PDF Rendering
    • Support for rendering masked images with RGB and Grayscale colorspaces
  • Document Conversion
    • Added new DocumentInfo property to EventArgs passed to TgtDocumentConverter.OnNeedPassword event - to obtain input and output document information properties
  • Document Printing
    • Added new property PrintCancelled to EventArgs passed to OnEndJob event handler - to determine if the print job was canceled
    • Printer page position and margin will now be recalculated based on rotation
  • Framework
    • Header-signature-based validation to identify file formats, as documents may have wrong extensions
  • General
    • Support for RAD Studio XE5 Update 1
    • Added new demo for document printer
• Changed
  • Document Printing
    • Class TgtPrintScaling has been renamed TgtPageScaling
    • Property TgtPrinter.Scaling has been renamed PageScaling
• Fixed
  • DOCX Rendering
    • Access violation occurs when some unsupported items are encountered in the document
  • PDF Processing
    • InvalidBitmap exception thrown when opening PDF with JPX images
  • Document Processing
    • Internal document object frees stream passed to it - for example, when loading a fresh stream or when the document is closed
    • File already open error when trying to open the same file
  • Document Printing
    • Password passed to PrintDocument was not used to decrypt document
    • Printer scaling issues when page scaling is set to psFit (fit page dimensions) and auto-rotation is enabled
    • OnEndJob event not triggered when printing is canceled by setting Cancel flag in any of the document printer events

Version 2013 R1 - October 28, 2013

• DocumentViewer control
  • Multi-format viewing with continuous scrolling
  • Formats supported: PDF, DOCX and image files such as TIFF (single page and multi-page), JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, ICO, EMF, WMF
  • Rendered elements for DOCX include sections, pages, paragraphs, columns and images
  • Rendered elements for PDF include text, shapes, images, and form fields (static only)
  • Hand tool to pan pages
  • Control+mousewheel to zoom in and zoom out
  • Drag and drop files to view
  • Built-in password dialog
  • Standard zoom modes: FitPage, FitWidth, Actual
  • Different rendering options: DPI
  • Standard Actions support for viewer operations
• DocumentPrinter control
  • Print all supported formats
  • Use global TPrinter instance as default, else use the one set to DocumentPrinter.PrintManager
  • Auto-rotate landscape pages
  • Page Scaling - Fit to page, Original, Shrink oversized pages
  • Page positioning
• DocumentConverter control
  • Convert all supported formats to images
  • Convert multiple inputs into single output file (if output format supports multiple pages or frames)
• DBDocumentViewer control
  • View all supported formats from Data Field connected to it

Licenses

The license agreements governing the use of this product are given below. For additional understanding of the agreements, please refer to our licensing and purchasing guide.

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 License
  • SDK License
  • OEM License
  • Student Academic License
  • Source Code License
  • Thought Leader/Technical Evangelist License
• Choosing Your License:
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  • Developer licenses are available at discounted prices for purchase quantities greater than 4. Larger teams are recommended to buy the 5-Developer, 10-Developer and 25-Developer Subscription Licenses.
  • For Distribution:
    • To develop/test/deploy/distribute most kinds of software applications using this product, you need a DEVELOPER SUBSCRIPTION, one for each developer or additional computer. No additional royalty would be required.
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• 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 and educational institutions. 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.
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• Renewal, Upgrade and Support Policy:
  • Get discounts on volume purchases.
  • Pay only 40% of the prevailing price for renewals within 1 year of expiry; 60% if more than 1 and less than 3 years of expiry; 85% if more than 3 years of expiry.
  • Upgrade to parent-product bouquets without losing money - pay only the difference - if upgrade is made within one year of expiry.
  • Free major and minor updates for 12 months.
  • Free e-mail support for 12 months.

FAQs

Resources

• E-mail Support

  A Gnostice Document Studio Delphi developer subscription comes with free priority e-mail support for 12 months. Please send your queries to support at gnostice.com. Please ensure that your mail system does not block e-mail from our domain gnostice.com. (Our support system will send you an autoresponder within a few minutes of your e-mail.) You can also use our online feedback form to send us support queries.

• Product Updates

  A Gnostice Document Studio Delphi developer subscription comes with free updates (major and minor) for 12 months. Our news page provides information on the latest updates to our products. You can also subscribe to our news RSS feed to get notified of the latest updates.

• API DOCS

  The Gnostice Document Studio Delphi documentation is available online at:
  www.gnostice.com/docs/xtremedocumentstdio_delphi/frames.html.

  The installer program will also create a local copy in your computer when you run it. Currently, the documentation is not updated for the name changes. The new documentation will be released in the upcoming updates.

• Articles

  We have also published technical articles related to Gnostice Document Studio and other Gnostice developer tools, as part of Gnostice Newsletter. The older articles use the old name, XtremeDocumentStudio Delphi. The new articles refer to the product with the new name. To subscribe to the newsletter, send a blank e-mail to info@gnostice.com with the subject set to "SUBSCRIBE". You can also get notified of the latest articles via our newsletter RSS feed.