[Lazarus] [ISSUE] FCL-Web and LazReport

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:52 AM, silvioprog <silvioprog at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2013/1/17 Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org>
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>> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013, Sven Barth wrote:
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>>> Am 17.01.2013 08:52, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
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>>>> Some time ago, I started a new reporting engine exactly for this reason.
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>>> And how far is your progress with that? Which reminds me that I should finally test the new database search provided in packages... -.-
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>> It is currently dormant; I had finished the looping logic, if memory serves well.
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>> Michael.
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>
> I've been thinking of porting jsPDF for Free Pascal:
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> http://jspdf.com
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> But, using inheritance, something like (a pseudo example):
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> VLabel.Text := 'Hello';
> VLabel.Font.Style := [fsBold];
> VMemo.Lines.Add('Line 1');
> VMemo.Lines.Add('Line 2');
> VMemo.Font.Align := faJustify;
> ...
> pdf.LoadFromJSON(<JSON>); // or pdf.LoadFromDataSet
> pdf.AutoPaginate := True;
> pdf.AddPage;
> pdf.AddObject(VLabel);
> pdf.AddObject(VMemo);
> pdf.AddObject(VImage);
> pdf.Print('print.pdf'); // or pdf.Print to print as DataURI

Why jsPDF and no FPDF (https://github.com/jepafi/Free-JPDF-Pascal)?

Marcos Douglas
PS: or my fork https://github.com/mdbs99/Free-JPDF-Pascal