[Lazarus] FCL-PDF and RTF Support

[Leonardo M. Ramé]

El 09/12/16 a las 09:30, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus escribió:
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> On Fri, 9 Dec 2016, Leonardo M. Ramé via Lazarus wrote:
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>> El 09/12/16 a las 08:52, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus escribió:
>>> On 2016-12-09 11:02, Leonardo M. Ramé via Lazarus wrote:
>>>> Hi, does anyone know if there's RTF support for FCL-PDF?. Anyone
>>>> working
>>>> on this?.
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>>> Please explain what you mean by that - RTF support?
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>>> fcl-pdf is a PDF generator library, nothing more. It does what it says
>>> on the tin, with the API available to it (as per the PDF 1.3 specs).
>>> It's not a report engine, layouting engine etc. So it doesn't do text
>>> layouting (alignment, text inside a shape, text on a curve etc.) But, it
>>> does output text (and other graphic elements) where you tell it to, and
>>> how it should look and in what font.
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>>> eg: In the upcoming fpReport engine I do text layouting (doing all the
>>> line calculations and word positions in the report engine), and then
>>> simply pass that information to the PDF report renderer, which in turn
>>> tells fcl-pdf where to render want text.
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>>> Regards,
>>>   Graeme
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>> You are right Graeme, I'm looking for a way to add an RTF file to a
>> PDF. I need a report engine but I couln't find one that fit my needs.
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>> Currently I'm using LibreOffice in headless mode for some projects,
>> but this one cannot use it (because of memory constraints).
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>> Is there a way to get the fpReport source?.
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> I can send you a preview, if you want.
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> Michael.
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Yes, of course!, I'm eager to take a look at it.

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Leonardo M. Ramé
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