Re: Printing Engine or System

Venkatesh

Try http://www.gnostice.com/

Gnostic eDocEngine VCL has almost everything that I want but its price is prohibitive. How can we pay $699 for just a printing control, while BDS 2006 itself has cost us only $350 (in a special festival offer).

Well we have opted for using our old time tried and trusted Suite of ActiveX controls, which have everything that I have asked for in my main post, (from ComponentOne at just $899 for around 140 controls, a year and an half back) in Delphi.

I had asked this question because I did not want to attach ActiveX to our software (as we are switching from VB to Delphi), as using ActiveX means giving a descent Installation file which the user will have to install before they can try our product. And finally registering ActiveX also requires Administrative user rights.

Just to quote when we decided to adopt Delphi for all future projects we heard a lot about WollWoll InfoPower VCL and many people told us that every Delphi Developer writing database oriented software should have this VCL. We evaluated and all our big impression of this components was lost in two hours of trying as most of what features they are boasting of we have been using since ages without giving it a second thought.

In fact I would advise component developers to study such efficient and mature components and try to duplicate them feature by feature.

Anyways thanks for the link. The component is truly interesting but the drawbacks of niche market seems to make such components very very costly and unfordable by individuals and small development houses.

Regards,

Yogi Yang
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