[Lazarus] LazReport - Feature questions

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Fri Jul 10 09:36:35 CEST 2015



On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Vincenzo Campanella wrote:

> Il 09.07.2015 21:45, Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:
>>
>> Just an opinion:
>> I am working with Graeme Geldenhuys to create a reporting engine from
>> scratch.
>> I think Lazreport's design contains some fundamental flaws, which can
>> only be remedied by re-implementing a reporting engine from scratch.
>>
>
> That's great :)
>
> I hope that direct exports to PDF and LibreOffice (.odt and .ods) or
> eventually M$ Office (.docx and .xlsx) will be available on all
> platforms... :)

The primary save format will be JSON, which can be converted to anything you want.
We're not making any assumptions about the final output. 
The structure will be such that adding exports should not be a problem.
We have at least PDF planned, for use in Web applications.

In fact, FPC's TTF/PDF support is being worked on as I write this.

Michael.




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