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 |
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Add rotated text and Images (where supported) |
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Automatically email document after creation |
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Automatically open document after creation |
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Choose from pre-defined paper |
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Convert metafiles retaining vector graphics |
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Include all content element types [Text, Image, Shape…] (where supported) |
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Page Producer component to automatically write to HTTP Response |
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Page setup |
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Save and Restore engine settings |
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Save to file and memory stream |
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Set custom paper sizes |
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Set master unit of measurement [inch, cm…] |
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Sharable settings component |
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Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support |
Professional |
Auto pagination for text output as single line and paragraphs |
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Automatically parse and activate URLs: ftp://, http://, email, file:// |
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Email options in setup dialog and accessible from Object Inspector for one-step export-email. |
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Header/Footer control |
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Include RichText as RichText |
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Insert backgrounds - image and text |
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Insert watermarks and stampings (insert any type of content element - metafile, image, text, including combination of elements) |
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Output whole paragraphs with single command |
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RichText rendering support as a standard procedure (DrawRichText). All content supported by TRichEdit can be rendered |
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Run-time Setup Dialogs enhanced for greater ease of use and appearance. |
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Store document information (where supported) |
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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. |
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Table drawing - word wrap support for Title Row for each column |
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Table drawing functions, with full control |
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Unicode support added for text rendering |
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3rd-Party / Reporting tools Support |
Professional |
ACE Reporter Export |
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Auto alignment of text for Excel export. New properties ApplyAlignment and MultiPass provide greater control. |
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Express Printing System Export |
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FastReport Export (FR v2.x and above) |
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GmPrintSuite Export |
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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. |
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QuickReport Export |
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Rave Reports Export |
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ReportBuilder Export |
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ScaleRichView Export |
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ThtmlViewer Export |
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TMS Grid Export |
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TRichView Export |
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Word wrapping of cell text for Excel export. New property WordWrap controls option. |
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WPTools WPRichText |
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File Formats Support |
Professional |
Excel |
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Other Document Formats: RTF, HTML, XHTML |
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Other Graphic Formats: JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF, WMF |
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Other Spreadsheet and Text Formats: Quattro Pro, Lotus 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, Text and CSV |
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PDF |
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TIFF, PNG, SVG |
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Windows® Clipboard |
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PDF Document / Forms Creation Support |
Professional |
Add Text Note, Link and Widget Annotations |
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Add thumbnails |
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Automatic font mapping and compact subset embedding of fonts |
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File Attachment: Support for attaching any type of external file to the created PDF. |
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Full Unicode support |
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Insert all types of Annotations: FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, StrikeOut, Stamp, Ink. |
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Insert large JPEG image files directly into the PDF document |
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Interactive Forms - button actions for Submit and Reset |
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Interactive Forms - custom JavaScript button actions |
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Interactive Forms - submission format as HTML, FDF, XML |
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Interactive Forms creation (also known as AcroForms) |
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JavaScript Actions |
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Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption |
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Set any type of Action to links/annotations: GoToR, Launch, Named, JavaScript. |
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Set bookmarks with unlimited nesting levels |
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Set viewer preferences |
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Specify document information properties |
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Specify PDF compression settings |
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Store images as zipped bitmap and JPEG |
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Support for actions on
Document and Page events. JavaScript actions can be associated with
document and page events such as Open, Close, Print, Save. |
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Support for adding digital signatures |
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Support for all non-Latin languages and mixed language strings |
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Support for associating all actions with annotations, bookmarks, and document and page events. |
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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. |
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Support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Farsi or Hebrew in all bidirectional text modes (in TBiDiMode) |
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TrueType font embedding modes - full, subset, and no embedding |
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Vertical text rendering |
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RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support |
Professional |
Automatically parse and hyperlink URLs |
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HTML, XHTML: Build Table of Contents page |
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HTML, XHTML: Include page navigator with First, Prior, Next, Last and TOC links |
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HTML, XHTML: Set graphic and text based navigator buttons |
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HTML, XHTML: Set page to AutoScroll |
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HTML, XHTML: Store images as PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP |
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Include images in binary encoding to reduce file size |
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RTF: Store images as PNG, JPEG, Metafile and BMP |
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Set tabs and output text at tab positions |
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Unicode support |
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Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support |
Professional |
Access individual cells to place content |
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Create workbooks with unlimited worksheets |
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Formula support (in Excel) |
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Set individual column widths |
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Set row spacing and column spacing |
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Store images as Metafile and BMP |
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Support for Unicode (in Excel) |
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Support for XLSX-format output |
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