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edited April 2007 in General
How can I print PNG picture loaded from database (with TppDBImage)?

Petr Vobornik

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  • edited April 2007
    as long as you can view it in a TDBImage at run time, you should be able to
    view it in a TppDBImage. There's some units you may need to add to your uses
    clause for this, but I can not remember what they are.

    --
    Ed Dressel
    Team DM
  • edited April 2007
    Hi Petr,

    Take a look at the following article on ReportBuilder image support.

    ---------------------------------------------------------------------
    Article: ReportBuilder Image Support
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------

    ReportBuilder natively supports .bmp, .jpeg, .wmf, .ico image formats.

    ReportBuilder has an open architecture that supports any TGraphic
    descendant.

    For example, ReportBuilder ships with a freeware component called GIFImage
    that can be used with ReportBuilder to print .gif images. (see the main
    report demo app for an example.)

    There is another freeware component called GraphicEx that
    supports several additional formats - including tiff, targa, and autodesk.

    It can be downloaded from:

    http://www.lischke-online.de/Graphics.php


    ReportBuilder can easily support TGraphic descendants
    with a simple register call.

    Below is the code to our ppGIF.pas unit which
    'uses' and registers the freeware GIFImage component.


    {********************************************************************}
    { }
    { ReportBuilder Report Component Library }
    { }
    { Copyright (c) 1996, 2000 Digital Metaphors Corporation }
    { }
    {********************************************************************}

    unit ppGIF;

    interface

    {$I ppIfDef.pas}

    uses
    ppCtrls, GIFImage;

    implementation

    {***************************************************************
    *
    ** I N I T I A L I Z A T I O N / F I N A L I Z A T I O N
    *
    {****************************************************************}

    initialization

    ppRegisterGraphicClass('GIF', TGIFImage);

    finalization

    ppUnRegisterGraphicClass(TGIFImage);

    end.

    --
    Regards,

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

    Best Regards,

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