[Lazarus] Reading .fr3 files from LazReports

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Lee Jenkins wrote:

> Odd, I asked about this before and was told x was not required.

Of course it is. The LCL requires X.

The low-level powerpdf does not, but this is not a reporting engine.

Michael.
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>
> Lee
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> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>>
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>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, I'm planning to migrate a desktop app from Delphi to fcl-web, and
>>> one important aspect of it, is the reporting engine. This app has many
>>> reports created with FastReport 4, and I want to let the new app
>>> generate PDFs on the fly.
>>>
>>> If this is not possible, what do you recommend to create PDF reports
>>> from Lazarus/FPC?
>>
>> I researched this myself, but there is no clear answer.
>>
>> It certainly depends on the platform. Linux/Windows ? On Linux, the existing 
>> reporting engines rely on an X-server, which is not very good for a web 
>> application. (our servers have no X installed). For example, some people seem 
>> to have FastReport 4 running in FPC, so this is good, but requires X and is 
>> not suitable for a webserver.
>>
>>
>> Michael.
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