ANN: Gnostice eDocEngine VCL v2.0 Released - Electronic Document Creation, PDF eForms and Report Export

From: Girish Patil \(Gnostice\) (girish_at_gnostice.com)
Date: 10/30/04 

Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 20:21:12 +0530

Gnostice announces the release of Gnostice eDocEngine VCL v2.0 

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Gnostice Information Technologies is proud to announce the release of a new and
improved version of it comprehensive electronic document creation component
suite, eDocEngine VCL. eDocEngine VCL Version 2.0 introduces many new features
which we have been working on for some time now. eDocEngine VCL Version 2.0 also
includes many document generation optimizations and performance enhancements to
give the smallest files in the shortest time. It also includes many usability
enhancements over version 1.x. If you bought version 1.x on or after September
1, 2004, you are eligible for a free upgrade to the equivalent edition of
version 2.0. Special upgrade pricing is available for customers who bought
before September 1, 2004.
For the full feature trial version and documentation, please follow this link:
http://www.gnostice.com/edocdownload.asp
For a quick EXE demo, please follow this link:
http://www.gnostice.com/download/v200p/edocpdfv2_demo.zip
About Gnostice eDocEngine
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Gnostice eDocEngine is a generic, 100% VCL electronic document creation
component suite. You can create rich electronic documents in over 20 popular
formats, including PDF, RTF, HTML, Excel, TIFF, SVG, PNG, JPEG, Metafile and
many more. eDocEngine tightly integrates with all major reporting tools such
as ReportBuilder, QuickReport, FastReport, Rave Reports, AceReporter to
produce crisp output in the 20 formats, WITHOUT a single line of code.
eDocEngine also supports exporting from Express Printing System, TRichView,
ThtmlViewer, GmPrintSuite and TMS Grid controls and other VCL products. For
more information please visit:
http://www.gnostice.com/edoc_engine.asp
http://www.gnostice.com/edocfeatures.asp
Pricing and ordering
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eDocEngine Standard - US$299 per developer
eDocEngine Professional - $399 per developer
We offer special discounts on multiple license purchases.
The registered version of eDocEngine comes with full source code at no
additional cost. You get a full Royalty-Free license to deploy desktop and
server-based applications.
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We are offering a SPECIAL 15% DISCOUNT through November 30, 2004.
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To order the upgrade or a fresh license of eDocEngine, please follow this link:
http://www.gnostice.com/buynow.asp
What's new in version 2.0
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All formats:
- Enhanced built-in run-time setup dialogs.
- Email options now included in setup dialog.
- Table drawing allows greater customization through enhanced
  OnCellDraw event.
- Table drawing now supports word wrapping for titles.
- Automatic pagination for single line text and paragraphs.
- Variables / Place holders for text drawing and watermarks.
  Built-in variables include Page#, Total Pages, Date and Time.
- Full Unicode support for text rendering in PDF, RTF and HTML.
- Automatic activation of Email and file:// links contained in text.
- RichText rendering as a standard procedure (DrawRichText).
- Document rendering can now be aborted before completion.
- More events added for greater control over creation process.
- Resolution support for rendering metafiles and object.
PDF:
- Support for new action types: GoToR, Launch, Named, JavaScript.
- Support for new annotation types: FreeText, Line, Square,
  Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, Strikeout, Stamp, Ink.
- Set and associate actions with annotations, bookmarks and
  document and page events.
- File Attachment: Attach / Embed external files of any type
  into PDF.
- Support for vertical text rendering.
- Unicode support for text rendering, stamping, annotations,
  bookmarks and document information.
- Support for inserting large JPEG images.
- Font subset embedding and encoding documents with Unicode
  characters optimized. File sizes nearly a 10th of earlier files.
- Support for inserting custom document information in XMP format.
Excel:
- Highly improved rendering with support for text alignment.
- New properties ApplyAlignment and MultiPass to control speed
  and quality.
- Text word wrap support.
Export Interfaces - ReportBuilder:
- Completely re-written to export more efficiently, accurately
  and keep the output file size to a minimum.
- Included support for WPRichText.
- Optimized image rendering.
- New events OnEncodeGraphic and OnEncodeGraphicDone assist to
  further reduce file sizes.
+ Plus several fixes and optimizations.
We continue to work on improvements to the product and we will be providing
several free updates to this release in the coming months.
More Information
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Why eDocEngine is the preferred solution for exporting reports?
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* Supports exporting to over 20 popular formats, including PDF, RTF, HTML,
  Excel, TIFF, SVG, PNG, JPEG, Metafile and many more.
* Integrates tightly with your reporting tool to enable CODE-FREE
  configuration and execution at design-time as well as run-time.
* Allows for extensive configuration of exports through vast set of
  intuitively named and grouped properties.
* Charts and Metafiles are rendered as vector graphics to ensure sharp,
  scalable graphics in the generated PDF, RTF and other supported formats.
  Vector graphics also ensures files are extremely compact and easy to
  distribute.
* Supports RichText rendering as RichText (not image) in all document
  formats ensuring crisp documents that can be text searched and enlarged
  without loss of quality.
* PDF engine supports full set of advanced features including, compression,
  encryption, TrueType fonts, font embedding, font sub-setting,
  international characters (European, Chinese, Japanese...), bookmarks,
  notes annotations and more.
* All standard and custom controls are exported, WITHOUT the need for
  extra coding on your part.
* Excel and all spread*** engines support intelligent cell formatting
  enabling values to be encoded in the correct format, automatically.
* Supports End-User configuration of exports through *customizable*
  run-time dialogs.
* All engines of eDocEngine are highly optimized for HIGH-SPEED export
  of reports.
* Highly flexible architecture enables custom programmatic exporting. For
  example, you can combine multiple reports then insert your own custom
  page (using the eDocEngine API), then append a few more reports and
  make a single output document of them.
* And much, much more...
Why use eDocEngine as your generic electronic document creation tool?
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* Generic engine gives full control to create any kind of document
  and add custom content to each page after it has been saved.
* Single programming interface enables documents to be coded just
  once and output to all 20 supported formats.
* PDF AcroForms support enables you to design richly formatted PDF
  forms with support for buttons, checkboxes, lists, edit controls,
  JavaScript actions and more.
* Advanced drawing functions include support for drawing tables,
  paragraphs and textboxes with a single method call.
* Paragraph control enables automatic multi-line text alignment to
  left, right, center or justify.
* Header and Footer control.
* Extensible, well planned architecture enables speedy and clean
  implementation of new features, new formats and support for
  rendering from new 3rd-party VCL components.
* High-speed rendering of metafiles and commands.
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The Gnostice Team
Gnostice Information Technologies
http://www.gnostice.com
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