Tag - GDIPlus - Synopse Open Source

2012-07-10

Better Unicode support in Reports and PDF generation

By AB4327-GANDI, 2012-07-10. Open Source › Open Source libraries

By default, both GDI+ anti-aliased drawing and PDF file generation using our libraries did lack of font-fallback implementation.

If some of the characters in a string are not supported in a requested font, they were drawn as square symbols on the GDI+ canvas or the PDF content.

The font-fallback mechanism implemented will use a third-party font (Arial Unicode MS by default, which is installed with Microsoft Office), for any glyph that are missing when rendering the content. Of course, for PDF generation, you are able to embed the font within the generated file (this is by the way mandatory for PDF/A-1 format).

Both of these new features are handled by the SQlite3Pages unit, i.e. for report anti-aliased drawing preview and PDF generation.

By the way, the TGDIPages class itself (the one used for report generation from code) now handles by default Unicode text, even with Delphi versions prior to 2009 (via the SynUnicode string type, which maps WideString before Delphi 2009, then UnicodeString starting with Delphi 2009). Does make sense with such a font-fallback mechanism.

2011-02-07

SQLite3 Framework updated to 1.12 - including engine 3.7.5

By AB4327-GANDI, 2011-02-07. Open Source › mORMot Framework

The Synopse SQLite3 Database Framework was just released under version 1.12:

internal SQLite3 database engine was updated to version 3.7.5, and SQL functions have been enhanced;
now handle prepared SQL statements with a neutral automated syntax;
with Delphi 2009/2010/XE, you can define directly Unicode string properties in TSQLRecord (will be stored as UTF-8);
include some overloaded methods using Variants for direct property access (e.g. in any grid);
SynPdf has now direct bookmarks and links methods, can reuse any existing bitmap, and generate PDF/A-1 files;
internal reporting now supports bookmarks and links (with on screen navigation), and better integrates with SynPdf;
a lot of bug fixes, new methods and enhancements.

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2010-06-30

Synopse PDF libray 1.8.1

By AB4327-GANDI, 2010-06-30. Open Source › Synopse PDF engine

Our PDF engine has been updated, it's now on version 1.8.1.

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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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2010-03-20

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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