Delphi PDF generation [closed]

Answer 1

Here are some (All Commercial) I came across when looking for something similar:

• VisPDF Library - This is worth checking out and you get source.

• PDFDoc Scout library - This is an ActiveX control and you don't get source but has some good features (good HTML to PDF conversion for example).

• PDF Creator Pilot - Worth checking out too.

I found that the freely available ones LibHaru, PoDoFo weren't up to scratch for my requirements unfortunately.

Answer 2

There are 2 ways to create PDF reports using eDocEngine. Either you use a report builder component (like QuickReport, Rave etc) and then use the eDocEngine interface to save the contents as PDF.

The other way is to programmtically use TgtPDFDocument class and then settings it's properties and collections. This gives much finer control over features like watermarks, permissions, password security etc.

Answer 3

Use our SynPDF unit. Among its features, you can use a true TCanvas to create the PDF, and embed True Type fonts subsets. It's one of the few libraries handling Arabic languages and such (via the UniScribe API). It's fully Unicode ready, and very fast.

And it's FREE and OpenSource! Works from Delphi 6 up to Delphi XE.

http://blog.synopse.info/?q=pdf

Answer 4

PowerPDF is free and opensource (LGPL). its realy small but effective!

PowerPDF

Answer 5

We are using Gnostice and are very pleased with it. It allows us to print our ReportBuilder reports to PDF, HTML, XML, Excel, Gif, ...

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Some minor issues we have come accross working with the component

1. Somewhere deep in the bowels of the component, Application.Processmessages get's called. You have to make sure your code handles reëntrance.
2. We had to set Preferences.UseImagesAsResources of the TgtDocSettings component to True to resolve AV's when printing to anything else but PDF.
3. Probably due to the way we use the component but the first printed page was always Portrait. We had to add a call to gtRBExportInterface.Engine.Settings.Page.Orientation to set the orientation to landscape if needed.

Answer 6

I've been using wPDF with QuickReports / QRDesign. Basically by converting the report to a metafile then producing the pdf from that. It also claims to have Fast Report support.