Delphi 2009, Unicode PDFs, and multiple selection.
Hello,
We recently purchased a single copy of Report Builder 10 for testing,
and were impressed by its great flexibility. The option to output PDFs
in multiple languages is extremely important, as from what I have read
here on the newsgroups, only English is currently supported.
1. I would like to know when the Delphi 2009 version of Report Builder
(11?) is expected to become available, and most importantly, if it will
support outputting Unicode data to the PDF format.
2. An issue when building reports; often, when there are many
components on the report, it is a major time saver to be able to select
them all and change the font or other properties for them
simultaneously. For some reason (maybe I am doing something wrong) this
does not seem to work - only one of the components (if any) are updated.
3. WRT component names - all report elements seem to get object names
that represent their types with a serial suffix, for example ppImage1.
This is mostly, however, accessing the component directly through code
can be useful sometimes. The only way I have found to change the name
is through say the object inspector, but to do this I need to first
change the UserName property in the report editor, exit and change the
.Name property afterwards to match. Is there a way to get them to sync
automatically?
Regards,
Alan Givati
Dilix Technologies Ltd.
We recently purchased a single copy of Report Builder 10 for testing,
and were impressed by its great flexibility. The option to output PDFs
in multiple languages is extremely important, as from what I have read
here on the newsgroups, only English is currently supported.
1. I would like to know when the Delphi 2009 version of Report Builder
(11?) is expected to become available, and most importantly, if it will
support outputting Unicode data to the PDF format.
2. An issue when building reports; often, when there are many
components on the report, it is a major time saver to be able to select
them all and change the font or other properties for them
simultaneously. For some reason (maybe I am doing something wrong) this
does not seem to work - only one of the components (if any) are updated.
3. WRT component names - all report elements seem to get object names
that represent their types with a serial suffix, for example ppImage1.
This is mostly, however, accessing the component directly through code
can be useful sometimes. The only way I have found to change the name
is through say the object inspector, but to do this I need to first
change the UserName property in the report editor, exit and change the
.Name property afterwards to match. Is there a way to get them to sync
automatically?
Regards,
Alan Givati
Dilix Technologies Ltd.
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Comments
I would like to correct an error in the first paragraph (in case it
caused confusion)
The option to output PDFs in multiple languages is extremely important,
*as* from what I have read here on the newsgroups, only English is
currently supported.
Should be:
The option to output PDFs in multiple languages is extremely important,
*and* from what I have read here on the newsgroups, only English is
currently supported.
1. The next version of ReportBuilder will include numerous major
enhancements to the PDF device however it will not natively support Unicode
characters (yet). This is mainly due to the fact that a PDF document is not
designed to handle Unicode in an efficient manner. It is however on our
to-do list to research this and possibly add it for a later release. The
next version of ReportBuilder will have embedded font support and multiple
charset support enabling the export of many new charsets and languages
within the ansi codepage realm.
2. It is possible to alter the font properties of multiple report object at
once using the toolbars in the designer. Simply select multiple objects and
change the font properties in the Format toolbar and all objects should
reflect the changes.
3. The Name property will be exposed to the end-user designer for RB 11.
Currently you can simply change the Name property in Delphi at design time
or at runtime in code.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Thanks for the pointers. We are looking forward to the next version.
By any chance, is the release date for v11 known?
Regards,
Alan Givati
Dilix Technologies Ltd.
2009.
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Regards,
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com
Nico Cizik
Digital Metaphors
http://www.digital-metaphors.com