Gnostice eDocEngine VCL

Gnostice eDocEngine VCL 5.0.0.344-A Comprehensive E-document Creation Component Suite for Delphi™ and C++Builder®

 

Create documents, spreadsheets and images, and export reports in 20 formats

 

Compatibility

Delphi C++Builder

 

Overview

eDocEngine VCL is a comprehensive e-document creation component suite for Delphi™ and C++Builder®. eDocEngine can create documents in clipboard, PDF, RTF, HTML, XHTML, EXCEL, TEXT, CSV, Quattro Pro, LOTUS 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, TIFF, PNG, SVG (XML-based vector graphics), JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF and WMF formats. eDocEngine ships with ready-to-use Report-Export interfaces that tightly integrate with popular Delphi reporting tools such as ReportBuilder, FastReport, Rave, QuickReport, and ACE Reporter. Using eDocEngine Report-Export interfaces, you can directly export reports to PDF and other formats without having to write any code.

 

Editions

Professional with source

Highlights

Generate documents in 20 formats - text, spreadsheet (including XLSX), raster image, vector image, and clipboard

Add additional output format support for popular Delphi reporting tools such as ReportBuilder, FastReport and Rave

Render content with format-specific enhancements such as annotations, form fields and bookmarks in PDF, and worksheets in Excel

Specify custom margins, headers, footers, and run-time text placeholders

 

Render text, images, shapes, tables and watermarks

Render Unicode content on Excel, PDF, RTF, XHTML & HTML - write non-Latin languages (Russian, Japanese, Thai, Hindi…); render text in all bidirectional text modes for right-to-left languages (Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew); automatically subset embed appropriate fonts (only in PDF)

Implement server-side automated document generation

Perform canvas and metafile operations on output document

 

Create Excel spreadsheets with ease

Also export to Excel from popular Delphi reporting tools.

Features

Features provided by various editions of eDocEngine VCL are listed here.

 

Features By Category

General Features and I/O Support

Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support

3rd-Party / Reporting tools Support

File Formats Support

PDF Document / Forms Creation Support

RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support

Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support

 

General Features and I/O Support      Professional

100% TCanvas, Windows® GDI functions       

Add rotated text and Images (where supported)      

Automatically email document after creation    

Automatically open document after creation    

Choose from pre-defined paper     

Convert metafiles retaining vector graphics     

Include all content element types [Text, Image, Shape…] (where supported)

Page Producer component to automatically write to HTTP Response  

Page setup      

Save and Restore engine settings       

Save to file and memory stream     

Set custom paper sizes      

Set master unit of measurement [inch, cm…]   

Sharable settings component

 

Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support    Professional

Auto pagination for text output as single line and paragraphs

Automatically parse and activate URLs: ftp://, http://, email, file://    

Email options in setup dialog and accessible from Object Inspector for one-step export-email.

Header/Footer control

Include RichText as RichText  

Insert backgrounds - image and text    

Insert watermarks and stampings (insert any type of content element - metafile, image, text, including combination of elements)  

Output whole paragraphs with single command    

RichText rendering support as a standard procedure (DrawRichText). All content supported by TRichEdit can be rendered    

Run-time Setup Dialogs enhanced for greater ease of use and appearance. Store document information (where supported)       

Support for Variables / Place holders for Text rendering. Built-in and user-defined variables supported. Built-in variables include Page#, Total Pages, Date and Time.

Table drawing - word wrap support for Title Row for each column  

Table drawing functions, with full control   

Unicode support added for text rendering

 

3rd-Party / Reporting tools Support   Professional

ACE Reporter Export   

Auto alignment of text for Excel export. New properties ApplyAlignment and MultiPass provide greater control.      

Express Printing System Export     

FastReport Export (FR v2.x and above)      

GmPrintSuite Export   

Optimized image rendering: Storing a reused image only once in the PDF using OnEncodeGraphic and OnEncodeGraphicDone events. Greatly reduces file sizes when images are repeated.      

QuickReport Export     

Rave Reports Export   

ReportBuilder Export   

ScaleRichView Export       

ThtmlViewer Export     

TMS Grid Export    

TRichView Export

Word wrapping of cell text for Excel export. New property WordWrap controls option.   

WPTools WPRichText

 

File Formats Support         Professional

Excel  

Other Document Formats: RTF, HTML, XHTML       

Other Graphic Formats: JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF, WMF   

Other Spreadsheet and Text Formats: Quattro Pro, Lotus 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, Text and CSV  

PDF    

TIFF, PNG, SVG    

Windows® Clipboard

 

PDF Document / Forms Creation Support     Professional

Add Text Note, Link and Widget Annotations   

Add thumbnails     

Automatic font mapping and compact subset embedding of fonts  

File Attachment: Support for attaching any type of external file to the created PDF.       

Full Unicode support  

Insert all types of Annotations: FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, StrikeOut, Stamp, Ink.      

Insert large JPEG image files directly into the PDF document  

Interactive Forms - button actions for Submit and Reset     

Interactive Forms - custom JavaScript button actions   

Interactive Forms - submission format as HTML, FDF, XML       

Interactive Forms creation (also known as AcroForms)       

JavaScript Actions       

Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption  

Set any type of Action to links/annotations: GoToR, Launch, Named, JavaScript.   

Set bookmarks with unlimited nesting levels   

Set viewer preferences      

Specify document information properties  

Specify PDF compression settings      

Store images as zipped bitmap and JPEG

Support for actions on Document and Page events. JavaScript actions can be associated with document and page events such as Open, Close, Print, Save.

Support for adding digital signatures   

Support for all non-Latin languages and mixed language strings  

Support for associating all actions with annotations, bookmarks, and document and page events.       

Support for inserting Custom Document Information. Write XMP metadata of document to insert custom document information and make it accessible to applications that support XMP.    

Support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Farsi or Hebrew in all bidirectional text modes (in TBiDiMode)     

TrueType font embedding modes - full, subset, and no embedding      

Vertical text rendering

 

RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support        Professional

Automatically parse and hyperlink URLs   

HTML, XHTML: Build Table of Contents page  

HTML, XHTML: Include page navigator with First, Prior, Next, Last and TOC links  

HTML, XHTML: Set graphic and text based navigator buttons  

HTML, XHTML: Set page to AutoScroll       

HTML, XHTML: Store images as PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP     

Include images in binary encoding to reduce file size

RTF: Store images as PNG, JPEG, Metafile and BMP

Set tabs and output text at tab positions     

Unicode support   

 

Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support      Professional

Access individual cells to place content     

Create workbooks with unlimited worksheets  

Formula support (in Excel)       

Set individual column widths  

Set row spacing and column spacing  

Store images as Metafile and BMP      

Support for Unicode (in Excel)       

Support for XLSX-format output     

 

System Requirements

The following IDEs are supported.