My fix: pay closer attention to those objects, make sure they don't overlap or make sure they don't generate outlines if no outlines are supposed to be seen.Īlso make sure you test using ADOBE Reader, on any of the given platforms. When exporting to PDF overlapped objects somehow managed to 'print' outlines, and it obviously looked ugly. You don't see this because of the object opacity. When working with the Fast Report editor (and when looking at it's previews) it's easy to overlap objects.

Transparency issues and outline issues.

This might actually be fixed in the most recent version, but I didn't bother changing the document to test. For me rounded corners were just a cosmetic feature, and with cosmetics there's no 'One Look' The alternative worked just fine. My fix: Found a combination of settings that made the exported PDF look exactly like the preview document.

Rounded corners in the PDF document didn't look like the ones in the Fast Report preview.

And I think that might also work for you: Start with a simple document that does export properly, start adding features until it brakes, then you know what brakes it and you'll know how to work around the problem.įrom my experience, here's what got me into trouble: The PDF export filter that I'm using is the one built into Fast Report! It surely has some bugs, but I managed to work around them. It more likely means they don't actually have the time, equipment or expertise to test with those platforms. I'm not sure that should be taken literally, considering PDF is supposed to be a cross platform format.

Here is a fresh example generated with the Fast Report 5 demo, displayed with Adobe Reader 11 on Android 4.4: A production-ready solution for this problem would be a benefit for cross-platform developers, given that Fast Report is the report generator bundled with Delphi. October 2014 - Fast Report 5 still seems to generate 'Windows-only' PDF. November 2015: Fast Report now have PDF/A support, with this option enabled the PDFs are fine on all platforms. If you know or use a PDF export filter which works with Fast Report, please let me know. I also tried to use the Gnostice export filter, but their demo installer didn't work in Delphi XE and when I contacted them, they took 15 days to send me some attached dcus which also didn't work. I recently discovered that the PDFs exported by the Fast Report's PDF export filter aren't displayed correctly in Mac OSX, iOS and Android devices.įast Report informed that their pdf implementation only support Windows and they can't say when the new implementation that they are working on will be available.

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