TppRichText and embedded images

rbuser

I use a TppRichText component in a report and its LoadFromFile method to
load the content from an RTF file created with MS Word. If the RTF file
includes images (bmp, jpg, wmf) the report does not print them (Word does
it). Is there a way to make that work? I am currently using ReportBuilder 7.

Thanks

Bruno Cuzzi
Metasoft Italy

nicocizik

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Article: ReportBuilder's RichText architecture
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The RichText in ReportBuilder is a wrapper around Delphi's TRichEdit which
in turn relies on Windows. There are two versions of Windows richedit -
RichEd32.dll is the older one and RichEd20.dll is a newer one (RichEd32 is
being phased out). Delphi by default relies on RichEd32 - the older version.
To use some of the more advanced features of Windows RichEdit, see the topic
on InfoPower RichEdit Support below.

In general Windows RichEdit supports the type of formatting that you can do
using WordPad.



InfoPower RichEdit Support
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InfoPower from Woll2Woll Software is a popular database add-on product for
Delphi. InfoPower's TwwRichEdit components support the Windows RichEdit2
format. This format allows the rich text data to contain embedded bitmaps
and OLE objects. For more information please see http:\\www.Woll2Woll.com.

ReportBuilder includes a component that enables the TppRichText and
TppDBRichText controls in ReportBuilder to use the formatting capabilities
of InfoPower's TwwRichEdit when rendering RTF data. The ppWWRichEd.pas unit
located in the ..\RBuilder\InfoPower directory defines a TwwDBRichEdit
descendant and then registers the class with ReportBuilder. This enables the
TppRichText and TppDBRichText controls in ReportBuilder to use the
formatting capabilities of TwwDBRichEidt when rendering data.


WPTools Support
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WPTools is a collection of components used to edit and print formatted text.
With its own RTF engine, WPTools offers numerous features not supported by
the standard Windows RichEd20.dll. This control lets you use tables,
paragraph frames, headers and footers etc. Using the optional ReportBuilder
support units for WPTools 2.x, you can print the enhanced WPTools features
(justified text, tables, graphics...) within your ReportBuilder reports. For
more information please see http:\\www.wptools.de.

TRichView
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TRichView is a suite of native Delphi components for displaying, editing,
and printing hypertext documents. Documents can contain tables, pictures,
and images. TRichView is available from www.trichview.com. There is a
wrapper for available for using TRichView inside ReportBuilder, see
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/Subpages/Downloads/CompanionRCL.html or
http://www.trichview.com/resources/

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com

rbuser

I have an application that generates maintenance work orders. I have
customers wanting to place fairly complex checklists inside the work order
as graphics or richtext. The checklists include tables, lines checkboxes
and similar high end richtext items created in word but saved in rich text.
The problem is that they span over about 3 pages and I am thinking rich text
is the best way to go with page returns, etc.

I am currently use Infopower richtext and RB 10.05 but they only print about
a page and then just print on top of footer and stop. Two questions:

1. Is richtext the best way to handle this? I don't see any way to print a
Word file in the middle of a report.
2. It sounds like WPTools is the closes way to accomplish this. Would that
be your recommendation?

Thanks,
Bob

nicocizik

Hi Bob,

1. Yes, using Richtext is probably the easiest way to display a word
document in ReportBuilder.

2. Yes, I would recommend taking a look at WPTools if InfoPower is not
currently working the way you need.

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Regards,

Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com