PDF Upgrades and Documentation

At present the PDF and GHTML filters are in a separate package called QREXports.bpl.
This package is downloaded separately for QR3.5, and is included in the distribution of QR362.

The package has components

QRPDFShape - included for compatibility, this control may be replaced with QRShape in v362
QRGrImage - may be replaced by QRImage in v362.
QRGrDBImage - may be replaced by QRDBImage in v362, but it has better image fitting than QRDBImage.
QRHRule - makes an HR in the HTML export.
QRHTMLLabel - makes a hot-link in HTML exports.

NOTE : the QRPDFDocumentFilter and TQRGHTMLDocumentFilter DO NOT HAVE COMPONENTS, don't look for them on the palette, read the manual.

Documentation and samples for the QRExports package may be freely downloaded
>> QRExports documentation.
>> Delphi sample code.
>> C++Builder sample code.


Upgrades

1. Compression and DocInfo upgrade.

This adds image data compression and a DocumentInfo section to the PDF document.
The new properties and methods of TQRPDFDocumentFilter are described in the current documentation.
ALSO - if you use this upgrade, the QRPDFLIB DLL need not be distributed, because a DCU is supplied for compiling the PDF code into the app.
**** UPDATED 23rd April for Delphi 6 and 7 *****
**** UPDATED 30th April with the new HTML filter which now exports shapes and frames
To implement the upgrade, download the replacement files and read the instructions in the file.

2. Frames and Background upgrade

This requires no changes to QRExports but replaces some Quickreportfiles and requires rebuilding the QR libraries. See here for advice on this.
To implement the upgrade, download the replacement files and read the instructions contained.



19th March 2003