i have extracted a small sample for fpReport and Lazarus. But i have trouble to declare a working Pagefooter. The Pagefooter is defined, but not shown after the rendering. Not in LCLrendering, LCLpreview nor in the PDF.

The CreateDemoReport is extracted from the fpreportdesigner, so i think this is well tested :-) by graeme.

What is my mistake of understanding ?

Andreas

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Andreas Frieß wrote

What is my mistake of understanding ?

You made a couple of mistakes and highlighted a bug in the PDF exporter.

Mistakes:

1.  You never registered the standard page sizes with:
          PaperManager.RegisterStandardSizes;

2. Your report used LiberationSans font. Make sure you added the search paths to the font cache. eg:

           {$IFDEF UNIX}
             gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add(GetUserDir + '.fonts/');
gTTFontCache.SearchPath.Add('/data/devel/Wisa/fonts/Liberation/');
           {$ENDIF}

3. You positioned a lot of reporting elements overlapping each other. Correct positioning will help you see things better. ;-)

Bug:

The PDF exporter didn't handle Page.Orientation of Landscape correctly, and rendered such pages from the bottom upwards. I supplied a patch to FPC's Mantis so hopefully Michael or somebody could commit that soon.

https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32478

After all that, the report renders just fine.

ps:
Note that I compiled your project using the latest fpReport from FPC Trunk. I simply set the correct Unit Source Path in the project. You don't need to use FPC Trunk compiler - I used FPC 2.6.4.

Regards,
Graeme

Patch Applied, thanks for the fix!

Michael.

THX Graeme

In windows this is possible and running: -> I have my sample extended

procedure TForm1.FormActivate(Sender: TObject);
begin
   if not FInit then begin
     gTTFontCache.ReadStandardFonts;
     gTTFontCache.BuildFontCache;
     if PaperManager.PaperCount=0 then
       PaperManager.RegisterStandardSizes;
     FInit:= true;
   end;
end;

The problem with fontcache, is not (maybe direct) visible in the demo on FPReport Usage.

BTW: point 3 -> the code is copied direct from the 'designer' :-) not made on my own - lol.

Bugreport for the designer problem with orientation is 32470, i will check this and close if running.

Andreas

Il 27/09/2017 12:50, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus ha scritto:

ps: Note that I compiled your project using the latest fpReport from FPC Trunk. I simply set the correct Unit Source Path in the project. You don't need to use FPC Trunk compiler - I used FPC 2.6.4.

What are the minimum requirements to use fpreport? Can I use it with laz 1.6.2 and fpc 3.0.0?
I downloaded both fcl-report and fpreport.
I tried to install fpreport but I failed.
Any hint?

Normally you can, but you will need to copy some additional units from the trunk version of the FPC source repo (in particular, fpexprpars, and fcl-pdf)

fpReport is in production use with 2.6.4 as the compiler.

Michael.

Il 28/09/2017 12:15, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus ha scritto:

I downloaded fcl-report, fcl-pdf, fpexprpars from FPC trunk and fpreport. When I try to compile lclfpreport package I got:
cfgfpreportimageexport.pp(24,42) Fatal: Cannot find fpreport used by cfgfpreportimageexport of package lclfpreport.

Sounds like a misconfigured path.
Hard to debug, because there is also the 8.3 filename support that interferes. How I cursed that while developing fpreport !! :/

Michael.

Andrea Mauri wrote

What are the minimum requirements to use fpreport? Can I use it with laz 1.6.2 and fpc 3.0.0?

I don't track the lazarus version I use, but I'm using fpreport (from FPC Trunk) with FPC 2.6.4.

On a side note:
I did notice recently that there was some FPC Trunk changes of fpReport that breaks FPC 2.6.4 support, but it was a single IFDEF to fix the issue locally. I'll submit a patch for that tomorrow on Mantis.

Regards,
Graeme

Michael Van Canneyt wrote

because there is also the 8.3 filename support that interferes.

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about those platforms. :-/

Regards,
Graeme

Is it possible to make a FAQ for fpreport ?

Regards
Andreas

...

Regards, Graeme

Sure.

You can add pages to the wiki about fpreport:

http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPReport

I suggest adding a new page

http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPReport_FAQ

and linking to it from the main page.
But don't add the FAQ directly in the main page itself.

Michael.

Done. The FAQ is started.

ANdreas