Gnostice eDocEngine VCL is a comprehensive, generic, 100% VCL electronic document creation component suite for Borland Delphi and Borland C Builder.
Gnostice eDocEngine VCL enables developers to deliver information from the applications they develop in over 20 popular document formats. Rich content can be easily formatted to the precise look and feel required and delivered directly to users' web browsers, sent as email attachments or saved to disk.
Actionable and navigational elements can be easily added to created documents to provide interactivity and enhance the overall user experience. Gnostice eDocEngine VCL currently supports the creation of documents in PDF, RTF, HTML, XHTML, EXCEL, TEXT, CSV, Quattro Pro, LOTUS 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, TIFF, PNG, SVG (XML based vector graphics), JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF and WMF formats. Metafile, BMP, DIF, SYLK and Text can be directly output to the Windows Clipboard.
Gnostice eDocEngine VCL does not use any external software or require any DLLs to be deployed for creation of documents in any of the formats. eDocEngine also exports from QuickReport, ReportBuilder, FastReport, Rave Reports, AceReporter, Express Printing System, TRichView, ThtmlViewer and almost any other VCL component.
Benefits of using Gnostice eDocEngine VCL in business applications include: Reduced cost of information distribution by delivering information electronically; Increased process efficiency and shortened turn-around time in applications that require users to perform actions on documents using the built-in support for Action, Navigation and form submission features; Formatting information in exactly the way users require it; Greatly reduced developer workload and time-to-market using a common programming interface and code base for creating all document formats; Better leveraging of existing investments with the help of the flexible Report Export architecture.
Limitations:
· Created documents will be limited to 5 pages.
· Each page of the created document will contain trial marks.
What's New in This Release:
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