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Vis PDF Lib is a Delphi and C++ Builder component for creating PDF documents. VisPDF does not use any DLL or other software to create PDF files. The VisPDF distribution includes the complete help system and many demo programs: PDF console application samples, PDF GUI application samples, server PDF application sample etc.

VisPDF Lib allows you to load existing PDF files and edit them in the following manner:

• Print text and draw on an existing PDF document using it as a canvas
• Add audio, video and text annotations
• Change the size and resolution of specific pages and the whole document
• Add, delete and copy pages
• Encrypt and sign the document
• Edit the document properties
• and much more…

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TPrintPreview is a descendent of TScrollBox and has properties of both TScrollBox and TPrinter classes. Key features of TPrintPreview are:

• Supports almost unlimited amount of pages
• Automatically adjusts printer’s paper size and orientation at the print time
• Automatically adjusts mapping modes
• Preview pages can be scaled with an arbitrarily zoom factor
• Shows created pages while new pages are being processed
• Displayed pages can be scrolled by mouse dragging
• Pages can be saved/restored to/from disk
• Each page is accessible as a Windows Metafile image
• Has some methods for rendering rich text format
• Can manage custom forms (custom paper sizes)
• Allows background and annotation for both print and preview pages
• Both preview and print pages can be displayed in grayscale, with ability to adjust brightness and contrast
• Allows inserting, replacing, editing, deleting, and reordering of pages freely at any time
• By using dsPDF library, can save pages as PDF
• When GDI+ is available, can save pages as multi-page TIFF image
• Has a complete set of events

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PrintDAT! makes you more productive because it has the features programmers want.

Features:

• Print TdbGrid, TStringGrid. TTable, TQuery, TDecisionGrid, TDecisionQuery, TwwDBGrid, TwwTable, TwwQuery, T_IBGrid and T_IBQuery.
• Print from these databases: DBISAM, Advantage, Topaz, FlashFiler, BDE, Apollo, CodeBase, DiamondAccess, DiamondADO or any TDataset compatible component
• Print super wide grids, 1000+ columns across using horiz. page breaks
• Create column totals with 1 mouse click. Choose from Count, Sum, Min, Max, Average, Standard Deviation and Variance.
• Output to screen (built-in report viewer with zoom), printer, text file, clipboard.
• Add report titles and footers at runtime.
• Print memos and long strings by word-wrapping within a cell!
• For the first time ever, print your TDecisionGrid (DecisionCube) and the summarized data (TDecisionQuery) that went into making it.
• Export any grid, including dbGrids, StringGrids, DecisionGrids, TTable, TQuery to any spreadsheet like MS Excel, to other databases or to graphics programs using ASCII delimited file output.
• Autosizes the grid column widths. Auto-fits grid to page.
• Shrink to Page and Expand To Page
• Newspaper Panels to snake narrow grids across page
• Report passwords
• Super fast printing 10+ pages/sec (to a text file)
• No DLL’s or Active-X to worry about. Written in VCL.

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FastCube enables to create various reports and diagrams instantly irrespective of the database size.

• FastCube is a handy tool for efficient analytical data arrays handling.
• FastCube usage for report building does not require programmer’s high skill level.
• You can build FastCube into your applications created in Delphi or Lazarus environments by way of components’ set.
• Connection to any datasource which supports “TDataSet” interface.
• There is an opportunity to build ready-made templates for the cube and to prohibit user’s scheme modification.
• You can export cube’s cutoff into Excel, Word and HTML.
• All cube’s settings may be performed both by program and a user.

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FastReport®4 VCL is an add-on component that allows your application to generate reports quickly and efficiently. FastReport® provides all the necessary tools to develop reports, including a visual report designer, a reporting core, and a preview window. It can be used in the Borland Delphi 4-2007 and Borland C++Builder 4-2007 environments.

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TableReport is a band-oriented report generator for Delphi 5-7, 2005, 2006 C++ Builder 5, 6, 2006 that in addition to other features common to such tools, introduces grids and tables similar to MS Word tables. You can add, insert, resize columns and rows, merge cells, split cell, format borders of TableReport grids and tables. This enables you to create reports on the fly, easily modify them and makes it possible to create interesting page layouts. All this makes TableReport an ideal tool for document form development. TableReport have a very powerful CroassTab feature that makes it possible to create crosstab reports as a result of a couple of minutes work. There is a freeware version. For more information visit our vebsite.

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Universal Report is a high quality code analysis and documentation software. Its goal is to analyse and  generate a  structured and well formatted documentation of a given program. Universal Report can handle various programming languages (Basic, C, C++, COBOL, Fortran, Java, Javascript, Matlab, Pascal, Visual Basic, Borland C++ Builder, Delphi, Kylix, Perl,  PL1, Python, Visual C++, Visual Basic .Net, Visual C#, Visual J++, and more), and generates html, latex, and plain text documentations using state-of-the-art pattern matching algorithms and compilation techniques. The tool is parameterizable both in the behavior point of view and the quality/layout of the outputs.

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FastReport4 VCL is an add-on component that allows your application to generate reports quickly and efficiently. FastReport provides all the necessary tools to develop reports, including a visual report designer, a reporting core, and a preview window.

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ZReport is a visual text report designer and generator, native VCL. Created to produce reports for matrix printers.

Key features:

• produces text output with adjustable printer escapes;
• works through Windows print spooler;
• unlimited master-detail and even multi-dataset reports;
• fine pagination etc.

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FreeReport 2.3 consists of a report engine, a designer, and a previewer. Its capabilities are comparable to QuickReport3 and ReportBuilder 3.52.

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