Creating Portable Document Format with Quickreport

Quick Reports can now be integrated with the Llion PDF VCL component to produce complete PDF facsimiles of Quickreportdocuments. Two new methods of TQuickReport and TQRCompositeReport

  • PrintToPDF( PDFDocument : TPDFDocument );
  • StreamToPDF( PDFDocument : TPDFDocument, PDFStream : TMemoryStream );

allow PDF documents to be created in code as easily as doing a preview or printing a report.

The close integration means that ALL report elements are exported, making this the best PDF exporter available for Quickreport.

In addition, the LLion TPDFDocument class offers the following features -
  • Support for a wide range of character sets - Asian and Eastern European.
  • Imported fonts - use Truetype fonts, embed fonts
  • Image compression - selectable JPEG compression
  • File protection - password protect PDF documents from copying.
  • JavaScript - embed JavaScript in PDF to create active PDF documents.
The replacement files and sample code are available to Professional users of Quickreportfree of charge - BUT you must also have a copy of the Llion TPDFDocument VCL component .

The Llion PDFLib is available from www.qbssoftware.com, price from £195.


12th November 2002