The best reporting component for Delphi? [closed]

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We are a team that use Gnostice and RaveReports to view, print, mail and generate PDFs of reports using D2007. D2009 is in the roadmap but as Gnostice don't support D2009 we have to wait. In the past the reports was done in code and then viewed, printed etc. Now we have started to evaluate the Ravereports designer and make reports with that instead.

But now we hesitate. Nevrona seems to be more or less dead. We haven't managed to buy the source of Ravereports and [e-mail] bounce back. Hm... And they are the default component for Delphi...

There are other report solutions like digital-metaphors and Fast Reports. I have no doubt that they are both good and competent, but we have to do something. Anyone know if Codegear is about to abandon Ravereports because of some trouble ?

Comments about digital-metaphors and Fast Reports is appreciated. We want a good reporting component that can build reports with code and in designtime. The reportfile should be saved in text, xml is prefered unlike rave-files. An easy way to set default printer would be nice as the Citrix environment we use sometimes fails with this task.

Answer 1

Another thing very interesting : support is very good with Fast Report Team !

Just ask one question and you get your answer very quickly : you can also ask for some improvement and if it don't look stupid they made it.

And then, if you need OLAP solution : you can get Fast Cube and generate report quickly

Answer 2

I would agree with idursun, I have used many reports engines before, but when I used Fast-Report, I haven't look else anymore.

I would add about fast-Reports

• FastReport has support for unicode for Delphi < 2009.
• Development is faster than other reporting tools, they were supporting Delphi 2009 before it's release date, other reporting tools took longer time, and in some cases too much time for
  Delphi 2009.
• Very flexible, you can access any report components from Delphi code, or use any Delphi function inside your reports.
• If you compare FR with others in Features/Prices, it has much of advanced features with lower prices.
• FR file format is XML.
• There's a server edition for web reporting.
• There's .net edition also.
• It has very powerful script engine with more languages(Pascal,Basic, Java & C).
• Has end user-designer tool without extra money(I think you need Standard version or above).

Answer 3

While you haven't explicitly mentioned Bold, I assume you would prefer a Bold aware reporter. If so, then nicely designed "pluggable" data awareness is important. I haven't tried all of the popular products, but I was able to boldify FastReport without too much effort. It's not lacking in any other area so I highly recommend it.