Feedback on best 3rd party export tool

rbuser

Hello,

Does anyone have a preference when it comes to RB addon components for
exporting reports into .DOC and .PDF formats?

Thanks

rbuser

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I have had good success with TExtraDevices for PDF.

http://www.waler.com


Tom

rbuser

Hello,

Thanks. I have tried that and like it. The pricing is competitive. It
exported fine in .PDF. It had some issues in .RTF format. The report was
very basic with a few boxes and fields. The boxes and fields are not lining
up. The author suggested using alignment properties. I have not had time
to experiment with that yet. If it is doable I still see it as a
limitation. I can say it is pretty straight forward to use.

Have you used any others?

Thanks

rbuser

Hi Reid,

While you are looking for a solution to export your RB reports, you would NOT
want to ignore eDocEngine. eDocEngine provides unmatched flexibility and support
for exporting reports.

To get a quick feel, please try exporting your RB report using this EXE
demo(save your report as .raf, load and export in the EXE demo):
http://www.gnostice.com/edocengine/download/ext/edoc_rb_demo.zip

Here is an FAQ that should help too:
http://www.gnostice.com/edocfaq.asp#P15

For a full feature trial version, please log on to:
http://www.gnostice.com/


Why eDocEngine is the preferred solution for exporting reports?
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* Supports exporting to over 20 popular formats, including PDF, RTF, HTML,
Excel, TIFF, SVG, PNG, JPEG, Metafile and many more.

* Integrates tightly with your reporting tool to enable CODE-FREE
configuration and execution at design-time as well as run-time.

* Allows for extensive configuration of exports through vast set of
intuitively named and grouped properties.

* Charts and Metafiles are rendered as vector graphics to ensure sharp,
scalable graphics in the generated PDF, RTF and other supported formats.
Vector graphics also ensures files are extremely compact and easy to
distribute.

* Supports RichText rendering as RichText (not image) in all document
formats ensuring crisp documents that can be text searched and enlarged
without loss of quality.

* PDF engine supports full set of advanced features including, compression,
encryption, TrueType fonts, font embedding, font sub-setting,
international characters (European, Chinese, Japanese...), bookmarks,
notes annotations and more.

* All standard and custom controls are exported, WITHOUT the need for
extra coding on your part.

* Excel and all spreadsheet engines support intelligent cell formatting
enabling values to be encoded in the correct format, automatically.

* Supports End-User configuration of exports through *customizable*
run-time dialogs.

* All engines of eDocEngine are highly optimized for HIGH-SPEED export
of reports.

* Highly flexible architecture enables custom programmatic exporting. For
example, you can combine multiple reports then insert your own custom
page (using the eDocEngine API), then append a few more reports and
make a single output document of them.

* And much, much more...

Please contact us if you have any queries.

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Girish Patil
Gnostice Information Technologies www.gnostice.com
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rbuser

Reid,

I'll second eDocEngine.

So far all formats export extremely quickly (150 pages
in like five seconds), PDF and Word support are great,
even charts and cross-tabs come over as designed, and
it has some good tools for working with PDF documents
outside of RB -- i.e. you can manually create PDF documents
easily. Lots of good options when exporting -- like document
titles, subjects, authors, etc. Handles custom page sizes
correctly, etc.

HTML was a bit of a mess on complex documents -- i.e.
charts. Some smaller images didn't scale well on PDF.
However, I'd give it a B+.

Thanks,

Brett

rbuser

Hello Girish,

Thank you for the reply. I don't understand how to save the report as an
".raf" file.

rbuser

THanks for the reply,


I will check this out. As far as the HTML export, I have never seen
*anything* that exports anything to HTML very well when the document is more
than a basic html document.

nicocizik

Hi Reid,

A .raf file is a ReportBuilder Archive File. You can print your reports to
archive by setting the Report.DeviceType to ArchiveFile and
Report.AllowPrintToArchive to True.

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rbuser

Thank you

rbuser

Hi Reid,

Here an FAQ we have on that:

Q: How do I save my ReportBuilder report as .raf file?

A:
Without showing the Preview dialog:
- Set ppReport.AllowPrintToArchive to True.
- Set ppReport.DeviceType to ArchiveFile.
- Set ppReport.ArchiveFileName to the name you want.
- Call ppReport.Print on some event (ButtonClick).
When you run the program and click the button you will see the Print dialog.
Click OK.

Saving from the Preview dialog:
- Set ppReport.AllowPrintToArchive to True.
- Set ppReport.DeviceType to Screen.
- Call ppReport.Print on some event (ButtonClick).
When you run the program and click the button you will see the Print Preview
dialog.
- Click the Print button and select the Print to File option.
- Provide Type as 'Archive File' and a file name for Where and click OK.

You'll find your archive file (.raf) in the folder you specified to save it in.
Load it in the eDocEngine ReportBuilder Export demo and export it.

Let us know if you require further assistance.

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Girish Patil
Gnostice Information Technologies www.gnostice.com
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PDF document management and PDF eForms processing components
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rbuser

Hello Brett,


Have you contacted us on this before? We'd really like to see samples of these
reports. Could you please send them as Archive files to support @ gnostice.com.
We'll have a look. I'm quite sure we are not happy with those grades.

Thanks,

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Girish Patil
Gnostice Information Technologies www.gnostice.com
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Electronic document creation, PDF eForms and report export components

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PDF document management and PDF eForms processing components
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rbuser

Thanks for these instructions. That helps me out a lot.