CMYK JPG-pictures with ReportBuilder?

rbuser

Hi!

Is it possible to use CMYK JPG-pictures with RB? I have a customer who
want's to use reports to commercial printing and they need CMYK-pictures.

nicocizik

Hi Kari,

ReportBuilder uses Delphi's TJPEGImage to provide support for jpeg images.
Unfortunately the TJPEGImage component does not support CMYK jpeg files. If
you must use CMYK formatted images, one you could use the GraphicEX library
available from http://www.soft-gems.net to print a CMYK Tiff file in
ReportBuilder. Please see the article below for more information on
enhancing the ReportBuilder imaging capabilities.

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Article: ReportBuilder Image Support
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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.html


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.


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