Released: Jan 11, 2010

Updates in this release

Updates in V4.48

• PDF Export
  With v4, reports can be exported to PDF files. Various export, pagination, security, and document settings can be customized by end-users via a built-in PDF Export Options dialog.
• New Print Preview Dialog Style Options
  Previously, to specify the Print Preview dialog style, you had to manually add a corresponding unit to the 'uses' clause and make sure it was in effect by promoting the unit within the unit list. With this release, you can use a single TdxPSEngineController.PreviewDialogStyle option to select one of the following Print Preview dialog styles:
  - Standard (uses standard TToolBar controls).
  - Advanced (uses toolbars shipped with the ExpressBars Suite v6).
  - Ribbon (uses Ribbon controls shipped with the ExpressBars Suite v6).
• Ribbon-Style Print Preview Dialog
  If your applications utilize the Ribbon UI, ExpressPrinting System v4 allows you to replicate this look and feel within the Print Preview dialog window.
• Skins and Look and Feel Styles for Built-in Dialogs
  All built-in dialogs support skins and look and feel styles. To apply skins or styles, use the TdxSkinController, TcxLookAndFeelController, or TdxPSEngineController component.
• Separate Design- and Runtime Report Link Packages
  Now ship runtime packages for report links. Your applications can be built using only these packages to reduce distribution size.

Additional New Features

• Settings persistance
  Settings of printing components and dialog windows can now be stored in .INI files and in the registry.
• Printing of report footnotes similar to report titles.
• Automatic creation of child control report link
  Previously, creating a report link for a container control didn't add report link units for its child controls. As a result, these child controls were printed as images. Now, once a container report link is specified, child control report links are automatically added to the 'uses' clause, allowing you to improve print results.
• Custom painting of child controls when printing their container
  In v4, printing a report for a container control automatically fires the OnCustomDraw~ events of report links created for its child controls.
• Resized images can now be smoothly stretched in a report.
• The number of report page lines can be customized.
• Report cell padding can be changed manually.
• Optional rendering of column and row headers, and a pre-filter on each page of a pivot grid report.
• In addtion to a vertical page break, you can horizontally split a report across pages at custom positions.
• The report storage's default name in the Save File dialog can be overridden via file-based report explorer events.
• TcxLabel controls can now be printed as plain text, ignoring any paint styles and effects.
• Optional sizing of the label height, so that label contents are displayed fully within a report.
• Dialog UI updates
  Icons in the Print Preview, Report Designer, Page Setup, and Print dialogs have been updated.