#FASTREPORT PDF EXPORT FONT INSTALL#

Being from the corporate accounting world, my tools are directed towards accountants and business users, which rely heavily on such reports, and I would like to see an open source/free reporting tool to serve this purpose.

FastReport 4 экспорт в PDF шрифты и большой размер.I have been looking for a solution for reporting, which is free/open source, and only the last week I found something worth mentioning.FastReport 4 font reading and huge file size worka.The problem must be solved in 5 FastReport VCL (it includes only used font-characters in exported file), but there is stil not FastReport 5 VCL on developer's site, and who knows when it will be. Please note that labels did not pickup new font when their CharSet property was setted to RUSSIAN_CHARSET, I had to change down all charsets to DEFAULT_CHARSET I've set Font property of all labels and bands in a report to new font, and (BINGO!) export file reduced from 1MB to 120KB. Small in size (57KB) Arial-like font with Cyrillic Charset I've found here:

#FASTREPORT PDF EXPORT FONT INSTALL#

Naturally this font you need to install on your development computer and on the client computer (only to computer of pdf-exporter customer).ĭisadvantages solutions: font need to be installed on client computer. The Main Idea of the solution: use a font with small file-size. But I found a partial solution that work in my environment, hope it may be useful to someone:

Virtual pdf printer - is not suited for me as a solution, because it's hard to maintain. Tried to use third-party filters, but they have bugs. I must say that the general solution I have not found. The huge file-size of FastReport export to PDF with embedded fonts: Reason: embedded font (which we embed in pdf file to solve problem 1)

The report file is huge: approximately 1MB Problem 2 (a consequence of the solution of the problem 1) With embedded font report became readable on any client OS and Web Mailers. In export component set this property to 'true': Solution 1 - PDF is unreadable on Android-devices, iOS-devices and web mailers Information for Russian-speakingсDevelopers is in Russian version of this articleĮxport files from FastReport to PDF is unreadable on Android-devices, iOS-devices and web mailers.

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