wPDF

wPDF, a powerful engine for PDF creation which has been available since July 2001, has now been specially optimized for greater compatibility with most drawing commands commonly found in Windows applications.

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Our PDF engine wPDF is well-established and widely used:

combit GmbH: For our reporting tool List & Label 10 we needed a high-quality PDF exporting engine. We decided to go with wPDF2 since it was best capable to export the complex drawing commands used by our print engine - Jochen Bartlau. (Note: The Standard License does not allow the use within a development tool.)

Dave Jewell about wPDF V2.02 in the Delphi Magazine April 2003: "...in my view wPDF is a far superior product. For my money, wPDF has to be the definitive solution for anyone wanting to add fast, flexible and comprehensive PDF generation to their Delphi or C++Builder applications."

Martin Casey (June 10, 2004): Your PDF software is excellent - really simple to use, which has been vital in this high-profile complex development. It would have been very difficult to deliver without wPDF!

Alexander Halser from EC-Software said, "Before we released Help & Manual Version 3 we tested more than a dozen PDF tools. .... We finally went with wPDF from WPTools. It meets all our requirements, is very reliable, extremely fast and integrates nicely into the program. If you need to create PDF files natively, wPDF is the best tool you can buy for money."

Alan C Moore reviewed Version 1 in Delphi Informant May 2002: "This library includes excellent integration with the company's other fine libraries, WPForm and WPTools... Conclusion: I've enjoyed working with these components, and I recommend them highly."

Of course, it is always possible to make a good thing better - that's why we have added support for RAVE and ReportBuilder to version V2.12 which was released on May 12, 2003.

Finally you can create PDF files from your reports which don't use bitmaps to display embedded charts!

With wPDF you now have everything you need to export from
* ReportBuilder™
* RAVE™
* WPTools 4
* WPTools 5
* THTMLView
* ACE-Reporter™
* WPForm
* QuickReport
* FastReport and
* DeveloperExpress™ Printing System.
Ready-to-use sample code and filter interfaces are included. (Read more ...)

How can this be done?

wPDF converts enhanced metafiles to PDF while preserving the vector and text information. This results in small PDF files which can be printed at high resolution, thus making wPDF superior to other solutions which convert embedded metafiles into bitmaps. wPDF supports the usual PDF features, including compression and 128 bit encryption and it was the first Delphi library to allow embedding of font subsets to reduce file size even further.

wPDF has set a standard of high quality metafile to PDF conversion, several companies have now licensed this powerful engine to integrate it into their successful products.

Example: Print 4 metafiles to one page

 
WPPDFPrinter1.BeginDoc;
  WPPDFPrinter1.StartPage( width, height, resolution, resresolution, 0);
  WPPDFPrinter1.Canvas.StretchDraw( Rect1, Image1.Picture.Graphic );
  WPPDFPrinter1.Canvas.StretchDraw( Rect2, Image2.Picture.Graphic );
  WPPDFPrinter1.Canvas.StretchDraw( Rect3, Image3.Picture.Graphic );
  WPPDFPrinter1.Canvas.StretchDraw( Rect4, Image4.Picture.Graphic );
  WPPDFPrinter1.EndPage;
WPPDFPrinter1.EndDoc;