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3rd Party - RBExportDevices Pro vs EDocEngine

edited February 2004 in General
Hi,
Can you please tell me the difference between RBExportDevices Pro and
EDocEngine?
Thanks & Regards

Adam Hair


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Adam Hair
Wimmera Software Development
Horsham, Victoria, Australia

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  • edited February 2004
    Hi Adam,

    Firstly, eDocEngine is a generic product that can export ReportBuilder and
    any other VCL reporting tool (or Printer Canvas based report/control).
    Here's a general description of eDocEngine. Below the description is a very
    short list of key features and most of the items listed are unique to
    eDocEngine...

    About Gnostice eDocEngine
    =========================
    Gnostice eDocEngine is a generic, 100% VCL electronic document creation
    component suite. You can create rich electronic documents in over 20 popular
    formats, including PDF, RTF, HTML, Excel, TIFF, SVG, PNG, JPEG, Metafile and
    many more. eDocEngine tightly integrates with all major reporting tools such
    as QuickReport, ReportBuilder, FastReport, Rave Reports, AceReporter to
    produce crisp output in the 20 formats, WITHOUT a single line of code.
    eDocEngine also supports exporting from Express Printing System, TRichView,
    ThtmlViewer, GmPrintSuite and other VCL products. Support for TMS controls
    is coming soon.

    Full Source Code at NO additional cost: The Registered edition of eDocEngine
    includes FULL SOURCE CODE at no additional cost.

    Why eDocEngine is the preferred solution for rendering reports?
    ===============================================================
    * Vector Chart and Metafile rendering ensures sharp scalable
    graphics in the generated PDF, RTF or other supported format. Also
    ensures files are extremely compact and easy to distribute.

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

    * Advanced features for PDF output include, compression, encryption,
    TrueType fonts, font embedding, font sub-setting, international
    characters (European, Chinese, Japanese...), bookmarks, notes
    annotations, form fields, triggers and more.

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

    * Intelligent cell formatting in Excel and all spreadsheet formats
    enables values to be encoded in the correct format, automatically.

    * End-user configuration through *customizable* dialogs.

    * SPEED. All engines of eDocEngine are highly optimized for high-speed
    conversion of reports.

    * Use one product for all your electronic document creation needs -
    Export from any Delphi/C++Builder reporting tool and other VCL
    components, cutting cost and reducing learning curve.

    * Generic engine gives you full control to further enhance the
    created document with additional Textual and graphical content,
    bookmarks, watermarks, form fields (in PDF) and so much more.

    Why use eDocEngine as your generic electronic document creation tool?
    =====================================================================
    * Single programming interface enables documents to be coded just
    once and output to all 20 supported formats.

    * PDF AcroForms support enables you to design richly formatted PDF
    forms with support for buttons, checkboxes, lists, edit controls,
    JavaScript actions and more.

    * Advanced drawing functions include support for drawing tables,
    paragraphs and textboxes with a single method call.

    * Paragraph control enables automatic multi-line text alignment to
    left, right, center or justify.

    * Header and Footer control.

    * Extensible, well planned architecture enables speedy and clean
    implementation of new features, new formats and support for
    rendering from new 3rd-party VCL components.

    * High-speed rendering of metafiles and commands.

    For more information on eDocEngine, please visit:
    http://www.gnostice.com/edoc_engine.asp

    Please feel free to mail us at info@gnostice.com, if you have specific
    questions.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Girish Patil
    Gnostice Information Technologies
    www.gnostice.com

    Gnostice eDocEngine (http://www.gnostice.com/edoc_engine.asp) -
    Electronic document creation, PDF forms and report export components for VCL

    Gnostice PDFtoolkit (http://www.gnostice.com/pdftoolkit.asp) -
    PDF document management and PDF eForms processing components for VCL
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  • edited February 2004
    Hi Girish,

    Firstly - thanks for answering my newsgroup post. I actaully tried emailing
    you a few times, but didn't get a response. Is the correct email address
    rbexport rarefind.com?

    From what you've replied - I'm assuming that EDocEngine will do everythign
    that RBExportDevices will, and more?

    Thanks & Regards

    Adam.
  • edited February 2004
    Hi Adam,

    I just checked and I can confirm that we have not received any mail from
    you, not at least in the recent past. Did you send it to sales@gnostice.com
    or support@gnostice.com?


    That is correct.

    With regard to report export here are some features you want to look at. All
    these features are very well supported in eDocEngine but mostly not
    supported in other products:

    * Vector Chart and Metafile rendering ensures sharp scalable
    graphics in the generated PDF, RTF or other supported format. Also
    ensures files are extremely compact and easy to distribute.

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

    * PDF: Apart from the more common compression, encryption, TrueType fonts,
    font embedding, you have full support for international characters
    (European, Chinese, Japanese...), bookmarks, font sub-setting,
    notes annotations, form fields, triggers and more.

    * End-user configuration through *customizable* dialogs.

    * SPEED. All engines of eDocEngine are highly optimized for high-speed
    conversion of reports.

    * Use one product for all your electronic document creation needs -
    Export from any Delphi/C++Builder reporting tool and other VCL
    components, cutting cost and reducing learning curve.

    * Generic engine gives you full control to further enhance the
    created document with additional Textual and graphical content,
    bookmarks, watermarks, form fields (in PDF) and so much more.

    Let us know if you have further questions.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Girish Patil
    Gnostice Information Technologies
    www.gnostice.com

    Gnostice eDocEngine (http://www.gnostice.com/edoc_engine.asp) -
    Electronic document creation, PDF forms and report export components for VCL

    Gnostice PDFtoolkit (http://www.gnostice.com/pdftoolkit.asp) -
    PDF document management and PDF eForms processing components for VCL
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  • edited February 2004
    Hi Adam,

    I just checked. Looks like you have a license for our Ace Export product. We
    are offering special discounts for upgrades from any of our products to
    eDocEngine. Please mail sales@gnostice.com for the upgrade details.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Girish Patil
    Gnostice Information Technologies
    www.gnostice.com

    Gnostice eDocEngine (http://www.gnostice.com/edoc_engine.asp) -
    Electronic document creation, PDF forms and report export components for VCL

    Gnostice PDFtoolkit (http://www.gnostice.com/pdftoolkit.asp) -
    PDF document management and PDF eForms processing components for VCL
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  • edited February 2004
    Hi Girish,

    sales@gnostice.com

    Neither, I was using rbexport@rarefind.com? You are not associated with
    rarefind?

    everythign

    Thanks...

    We

    Thanks - that is correct, and I'm aware of the discount. That's why I'm
    pondering purchasing the eDocEngine instead of the RBExportDevicesPro, as
    with the special discount, they are similarly priced. :-)

    Thanks & Regards

    Adam Hair.
  • edited February 2004
    Hi Girish,

    My sincere apologies. I thought that gnostice and rarefind were the same
    company, but appears as though I was way off. I guess that answers my
    question why you didn't reply to my email. .

    Thanks for your help...

    Adam.
  • edited February 2004
    Hi Adam,

    The company I co-founded in 1999, and brought the products I had developed
    on my own into, was Pragnaan. I moved out in 2002 to found Gnostice.
    Pragnaan has now been renamed.

    I did send out a mail and announce on the newsgroups when I moved out. Looks
    like you missed it.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Girish Patil
    Gnostice Information Technologies
    www.gnostice.com

    Gnostice eDocEngine (http://www.gnostice.com/edoc_engine.asp) -
    Electronic document creation, PDF forms and report export components for VCL

    Gnostice PDFtoolkit (http://www.gnostice.com/pdftoolkit.asp) -
    PDF document management and PDF eForms processing components for VCL
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  • edited February 2004

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