[Lazarus] fpReport - can not render pagefooter

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-09-27 09:38, Andreas Frieß via Lazarus wrote:
> What is my mistake of understanding ?

You made a couple of mistakes and highlighted a bug in the PDF exporter.

Mistakes:

1.  You never registered the standard page sizes with:
          PaperManager.RegisterStandardSizes;

2.  Your report used LiberationSans font. Make sure you added
     the search paths to the font cache. eg:

           {$IFDEF UNIX}
             gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add(GetUserDir + '.fonts/');
 
gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add('/data/devel/Wisa/fonts/Liberation/');
           {$ENDIF}

3.  You positioned a lot of reporting elements overlapping each
     other. Correct positioning will help you see things better. ;-)


Bug:

    The PDF exporter didn't handle Page.Orientation of Landscape
    correctly, and rendered such pages from the bottom upwards.
    I supplied a patch to FPC's Mantis so hopefully Michael or
    somebody could commit that soon.

       https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32478


After all that, the report renders just fine.


ps:
   Note that I compiled your project using the latest fpReport from
   FPC Trunk. I simply set the correct Unit Source Path in the project.
   You don't need to use FPC Trunk compiler - I used FPC 2.6.4.


Regards,
   Graeme

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