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Generic electronic document, PDF eForms creation and report export component suite. Gnostice eDocEngine is a comprehensive, generic, 100% VCL electronic document creation component suite for Borland Delphi and Borland C++Builder. eDocEngine enables developers to deliver information from the applications they develop in over 20 popular document formats, including PDF, RTF, HTML, Excel, TIFF, SVG and others. Delivers the power and the freedom to create every kind of electronic document required. Greatly reduces developer learning curve and cost. Delivers rich PDF forms that can be filled and submitted online, reducing manual processing overheads and the need to use paper.

Gnostice eDocEngine is a comprehensive, generic, 100% VCL electronic document creation component suite for Borland® Delphi™ and Borland® C++Builder™.

eDocEngine currently supports the creation of documents in PDF, RTF, HTML, XHTML, EXCEL, TEXT, CSV, Quattro Pro, LOTUS 1-2-3, DIF, SYLK, TIFF, PNG, SVG (XML based vector graphics), JPEG, GIF, BMP, EMF and WMF formats.

Why use Gnostice eDocEngine as your electronic document creation component?

• Export from any Delphi™-C++Builder™ reporting tool to popular formats for distribution. Supported reporting tools include, QuickReport, ReportBuilder, Rave , FastReport, AceReporter and more.
• Single, rich programming interface enables you to create attractive electronic documents using the same set of instructions in over 18 popular formats: PDF, Word RTF, HTML, XHTML, Excel, Text, TIFF, SVG, JPG and more. This not only simplifies programming but also reduces the learning curve and cost of development.
• Generic engines give full control to create any kind of document and add custom content to meet any kind of application need.
• Advanced features for PDF output include, compression, encryption, TrueType fonts, font embedding, font sub-setting, international characters (European, Chinese, Japanese...), bookmarks, notes annotations and more.
• PDF AcroForms support enables you to design richly formatted PDF forms with support for buttons, checkboxes, lists, edit controls, JavaScript actions and more.
• Vector graphics and Metafile rendering ensures sharp scalable graphics in the generated PDF, RTF or other supported formats. Also ensures files are extremely compact and easy to distribute.
• Convert RichText to PDF, HTML and other formats making the documents more portable. RichText is rendered as rich, formatted text (not image) in all document formats ensuring crisp documents that can be text searched and enlarged without loss of quality.
• Advanced drawing functions include support for drawing tables, paragraphs and textboxes with a single method call.
• Paragraph control enables automatic alignment of multi-line text items. Left, Right, Center or Justify alignment can be achieved just by a single property setting.
• Built-in Header and Footer control further simplifies document creation, as the task of rendering repeating items can be delegated to the component itself.
• Extensible, well planned architecture enables speedy and clean implementation of new features and formats.
• Allows end-user configuration of document output through run-time dialogs.
• SPEED. All engines of eDocEngine are highly optimized for high-speed rendering of commands and metafiles. Ideal for dynamic Internet and Intranet application development.
• Reduce costs for information delivery by delivering information electronically
• Increase process efficiency and shorten turn-around time in applications that require users to perform actions on documents using the built-in support for Action, Navigation and form submission features
• Format information in exactly the way users require it
• Greatly reduce developer workload and time-to-market using a common programming interface and code base for creating all document formats
• Better leverage existing investments with the help of the flexible Report Export architecture

Using eDocEngine to create and deliver information electronically
eDocEngine provides VCL components for the creation of the supported document formats. The developer can place the components on a Form or DataModule, set properties to customize the output and then call methods to insert Text, draw Shapes, Charts and Images, and render Metafiles. The final output can be received in a memory stream or a disk file. The screen shots show the creation of a new PDF document with some text and a metafile rendered. The vector graphics in the metafile are retained as vector graphics in the PDF document ensuring sharp and light weight PDF documents, even when scaled to much larger page sizes.

Power to control and the accuracy to satisfy any document creation need
eDocEngine provides an extensive set of drawing methods to enable developers to create the rich and precise electronic documents that business applications demand. Over the standard drawing methods, eDocEngine also provides a generic Canvas (HDC) handle that is 100% compatible with TCanvas and Windows® drawing functions. With the generic Canvas feature you can include any type of content and render any third-party control that can draw itself to a Canvas. The Canvas handle is provided for all supported document formats!

Native support for enhanced visual representations of information
eDocEngine provides more than just drawing primitives that draw simple text, images and shapes. To simplify the developer’s task, eDocEngine provides Table and Grid drawing, laying out text as Paragraphs by setting left and right indents, and placing memos in boxes wherever needed. These features really take the load off the developer by getting content formatted easily and in enhanced presentation quality.

One language and yet no compromises
All document engines of eDocEngine support a vast set of common properties and methods and the classes are layered in such a way that efficient OOP techniques can be applied to create documents in multiple formats with a single code base. Yet developers need not make any compromises when they need to implement an advanced feature supported in a particular document format such as PDF, RTF or HTML. Advanced features unique to each document format are supported by additional properties and methods of that engine. You can implement encryption, encoding, font embedding and font sub-setting in PDF documents, and place content in cells, set the format of cells and start a new Worksheet in Excel documents. No compromises!

Extensible architecture
With a well laid out extensible architecture, eDocEngine naturally lends itself to continual development and enhancement. New document formats and features can easily be supported just by tapping at the appropriate layer of the eDocEngine architecture. New data exporting components can be implemented for new reporting tools with the flexible and highly configurable Report Export interface architecture.

eDocEngine in workflow scenarios
eDocEngine supports key features necessary for implementing business workflow functions. Created documents can be automatically emailed to specified recipients or be opened to view. eDocEngine also supports the setting of presentation features to created PDF, HTML and XHTML documents. With the presentation features documents can be opened automatically after creation and set to scroll and show page by page with special transition and scroll effects.