Synopse Open Source

2010-05-03

Synopse PDF engine

By AB4327-GANDI, 2010-05-03. Open Source › Synopse PDF engine

Synopse PDF engine is an Open Source PDF document creation library for Delphi, embedded in one unit. It's used in the 1.7 version of SQLite3 framework, for creating PDF files from reports.

Among its features, you can use a true TCanvas to create the PDF, and embed True Type fonts subsets. Of course, it's Unicode ready, and licensed under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license.

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2010-04-02

Antialiased drawing from TMetaFile

By AB4327-GANDI, 2010-04-02. Open Source › Open Source libraries

The new version of our Open Source SynGdiPlus unit does provide a lot of new features:
- dynamic linking (your program runs even on Windows 98/2000), without the gdiplus.dll library
- use version 1.1 of GDI+ if available on your system (under Vista/Seven or the one embedded since Office 2003)
- can convert from a TMetaFile (i.e. emf) into a GDI+ metafile (i.e. emf+)
- can draw TMetaFiles into any canvas, with GDI+ anti-aliasing!

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2010-03-28

Mac OS X Stack Alignment, asm and trolls

By AB4327-GANDI, 2010-03-28. Pascal Programming

In a very interesting comment, PhiS spoke about the Mac OS X Stack Alignment problem, and the way asm code should be written for the future Cross Platform Delphi compiler. Here are some (hope without any Troll hidden) reflections I went through.

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2010-03-24

Fast JPEG decoder using SSE/SSE2 version 1.2

By AB4327-GANDI, 2010-03-24. Open Source › Open Source libraries

The Fast JPEG decoder using SSE/SSE2 library file has been updated, and is now in version 1.2, released under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. It's mainly a bug issue fix.

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2010-03-23

CopyRecord faster proposal

By AB4327-GANDI, 2010-03-23. Open Source › Enhanced Delphi Run Time

After some speed debates occurred in the Delphi community, I've rewritten the _CopyRecord function of the system.pas unit, with speed in mind.

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2010-03-22

Synopse Big Table v1.3

By AB4327-GANDI, 2010-03-22. Open Source › Synopse BigTable

The Synopse Big Table has been updated to the 1.3 version.
You can now access to your data with more common Open() then Read() and Seek() methods. Some other enhancements.

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2010-03-20

GIF, TIF, PNG and JPG pictures TGraphic read/write via GDI+

By AB4327-GANDI, 2010-03-20. Open Source › Open Source libraries

Implements TGraphic descendants able to load and save GIF, TIF, PNG and JPG pictures, using the GDI+ library. Freeware Opensource component, licensed under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. Works from Delphi 3 to 2010.

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2010-03-18

Fast JPEG decoder using SSE/SSE2 version 1.1

By AB4327-GANDI, 2010-03-18. Open Source › Open Source libraries

The Fast JPEG decoder using SSE/SSE2 library file has been updated, and is now in version 1.1, released under a MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license.

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