[Lazarus] Reading .fr3 files from LazReports

[Michael Van Canneyt]

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.