[Lazarus] Reading .fr3 files from LazReports

[Jesus Reyes]

--- El lun 23-ago-10, Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com> escribió:

> De: Lee Jenkins <lee at datatrakpos.com>
> Asunto: Re: [Lazarus] Reading .fr3 files from LazReports
> A: "Lazarus mailing list" <lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org>
> Fecha: lunes, 23 de agosto de 2010, 17:12
> Odd, I asked about this before and
> was told x was not required.
> 
> --
> Warm Regards
> 
> Lee
> 
> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >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.
> >--

LazReport reports can be exported to PDF with PowerPDF addon, see lazreport/source/addons/pdfexport. This can of course be done programmatically

LazReport cannot import FastReport reports that I know.

PowerPDF can be used standalone and it doesn't need X or anything else.

Jesus Reyes A.