[Lazarus] Reading .fr3 files from LazReports

[Leonardo M. Ramé]

El lun, 23-08-2010 a las 15:44 -0700, Jesus Reyes escribió:
> 
> --- 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.

Interesting to know that, I'll try PowerPDF. If that doesn't work, I'll
have to re-create the reports in Latex source, then generate the PDFs.

-- 
Leonardo M. Ramé
Griensu S.A. - Medical IT Córdoba
Tel.: 0351-4247979