[Lazarus] Reading .fr3 files from LazReports

[Lee Jenkins]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> As you can see, this includes a lot of the LCL units, and they depend on 
> X through the widgetset.
> 
> Yes, I know about the no_gui widgetset, but if you use that, you'll get 
> a bunch of errors because of missing functionality (pagewidth/height 
> missing or zero, no font info etc.).
> 
> Lazreport inherited from fastreport a totally misplaced dependency on 
> the GUI, unfortunately :/
> 
> For desktop apps, this is perfectly OK. But not for web apps.
> 

OK.  The reporting engine itself requires LCL and not just the preview/viewer 
portions.  Make sense, being based on FreeReport which didn't make sense to 
abstract out the engine because Windows<->GUI is always there.

PowerPDF is pretty decent otherwise.

Thanks Michael,

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Warm Regards,

Lee