eDocEngine VCL

Overview

eDocEngine VCL is a comprehensive e-document creation component suite for Delphi™ and C++Builder®. eDocEngine can create documents in clipboard, PDF, RTF, HTML, XHTML, EXCEL, TEXT, CSV, Quattro Pro, LOTUS 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, TIFF, PNG, SVG (XML-based vector graphics), JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF and WMF formats. eDocEngine ships with ready-to-use Report-Export interfaces that tightly integrate with popular Delphi reporting tools such as ReportBuilder, FastReport, Rave, QuickReport, and ACE Reporter. Using eDocEngine Report-Export interfaces, you can directly export reports to PDF and other formats without having to write any code.

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Highlights

• Generate documents in 20 formats – text, spreadsheet (including XLSX), raster image, vector image, and clipboard
• Add additional output format support for popular Delphi reporting tools such as ReportBuilder, FastReport and Rave
• Render content with format-specific enhancements such as annotations, form fields and bookmarks in PDF, and worksheets in Excel
• Specify custom margins, headers, footers, and run-time text placeholders

• Render text, images, shapes, tables and watermarks
• Render Unicode content on Excel, PDF, RTF, XHTML & HTML – write non-Latin languages (Russian, Japanese, Thai, Hindi…); render text in all bidirectional text modes for right-to-left languages (Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew); automatically subset embed appropriate fonts (only in PDF)
• Implement server-side automated document generation
• Perform canvas and metafile operations on output document

Features

Features provided by various editions of eDocEngine VCL are listed here. (For system requirements, click here.)

Feature Matrix By Edition

Features By Category
General Features and I/O Support
Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support
3rd-Party / Reporting tools Support
File Formats Support
PDF Document / Forms Creation Support
RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support
Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support
General Features and I/O Support	Professional
100% TCanvas, Windows® GDI functions
Add rotated text and Images (where supported)
Automatically email document after creation
Automatically open document after creation
Choose from pre-defined paper
Convert metafiles retaining vector graphics
Include all content element types [Text, Image, Shape…] (where supported)
Page Producer component to automatically write to HTTP Response
Page setup
Save and Restore engine settings
Save to file and memory stream
Set custom paper sizes
Set master unit of measurement [inch, cm…]
Sharable settings component
Advanced Features / Generic Document Creation Support	Professional
Auto pagination for text output as single line and paragraphs
Automatically parse and activate URLs: ftp://, http://, email, file://
Email options in setup dialog and accessible from Object Inspector for one-step export-email.
Header/Footer control
Include RichText as RichText
Insert backgrounds – image and text
Insert watermarks and stampings (insert any type of content element – metafile, image, text, including combination of elements)
Output whole paragraphs with single command
RichText rendering support as a standard procedure (DrawRichText). All content supported by TRichEdit can be rendered
Run-time Setup Dialogs enhanced for greater ease of use and appearance.
Store document information (where supported)
Support for Variables / Place holders for Text rendering. Built-in and user-defined variables supported. Built-in variables include Page#, Total Pages, Date and Time.
Table drawing – word wrap support for Title Row for each column
Table drawing functions, with full control
Unicode support added for text rendering
3rd-Party / Reporting tools Support	Professional
ACE Reporter Export
Auto alignment of text for Excel export. New properties ApplyAlignment and MultiPass provide greater control.
Express Printing System Export
FastReport Export (FR v2.x and above)
GmPrintSuite Export
Optimized image rendering: Storing a reused image only once in the PDF using OnEncodeGraphic and OnEncodeGraphicDone events. Greatly reduces file sizes when images are repeated.
QuickReport Export
Rave Reports Export
ReportBuilder Export
ScaleRichView Export
ThtmlViewer Export
TMS Grid Export
TRichView Export
Word wrapping of cell text for Excel export. New property WordWrap controls option.
WPTools WPRichText
File Formats Support	Professional
Excel
Other Document Formats: RTF, HTML, XHTML
Other Graphic Formats: JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF, WMF
Other Spreadsheet and Text Formats: Quattro Pro, Lotus 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, Text and CSV
PDF
TIFF, PNG, SVG
Windows® Clipboard
PDF Document / Forms Creation Support	Professional
Add Text Note, Link and Widget Annotations
Add thumbnails
Automatic font mapping and compact subset embedding of fonts
File Attachment: Support for attaching any type of external file to the created PDF.
Full Unicode support
Insert all types of Annotations: FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, StrikeOut, Stamp, Ink.
Insert large JPEG image files directly into the PDF document
Interactive Forms – button actions for Submit and Reset
Interactive Forms – custom JavaScript button actions
Interactive Forms – submission format as HTML, FDF, XML
Interactive Forms creation (also known as AcroForms)
JavaScript Actions
Secure with password using 40bit and 128bit Encryption
Set any type of Action to links/annotations: GoToR, Launch, Named, JavaScript.
Set bookmarks with unlimited nesting levels
Set viewer preferences
Specify document information properties
Specify PDF compression settings
Store images as zipped bitmap and JPEG
Support for actions on Document and Page events. JavaScript actions can be associated with document and page events such as Open, Close, Print, Save.
Support for adding digital signatures
Support for all non-Latin languages and mixed language strings
Support for associating all actions with annotations, bookmarks, and document and page events.
Support for inserting Custom Document Information. Write XMP metadata of document to insert custom document information and make it accessible to applications that support XMP.
Support for right-to-left languages such as Arabic, Farsi or Hebrew in all bidirectional text modes (in TBiDiMode)
TrueType font embedding modes – full, subset, and no embedding
Vertical text rendering
RTF, HTML, XHTML Creation Support	Professional
Automatically parse and hyperlink URLs
HTML, XHTML: Build Table of Contents page
HTML, XHTML: Include page navigator with First, Prior, Next, Last and TOC links
HTML, XHTML: Set graphic and text based navigator buttons
HTML, XHTML: Set page to AutoScroll
HTML, XHTML: Store images as PNG, JPEG, GIF and BMP
Include images in binary encoding to reduce file size
RTF: Store images as PNG, JPEG, Metafile and BMP
Set tabs and output text at tab positions
Unicode support
Excel, Spreadsheet Creation Support	Professional
Access individual cells to place content
Create workbooks with unlimited worksheets
Formula support (in Excel)
Set individual column widths
Set row spacing and column spacing
Store images as Metafile and BMP
Support for Unicode (in Excel)
Support for XLSX-format output

System Requirements

The following IDEs are supported.

Version	Delphi		C++Builder
	32-bit	64-bit	32-bit	64-bit
6	Yes	NA	No	NA
7	Yes	NA	NA	NA
2005	No	NA	NA	NA
2006	No	NA	No	NA
2007	Yes	NA	Yes	NA
2009	Yes	NA	Yes	NA
2010	Yes	NA	Yes	NA
XE	Yes	NA	Yes	NA
XE2	Yes	Yes	Yes	NA
XE3	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE4	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE5	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE6	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE7	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
XE8	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10 Seattle	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.1 Berlin	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.2 Tokyo	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.3 Rio	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
10.4 Sydney	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
11.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	No