Report!
Quickly and easily create new reports with the WYSIWYG Report Designer and wizard. You can also import existing Access reports, programmatically create and customize reports, and read data from recordsets or custom data sources.

View!
VSVIEW documents can be automatically loaded into a Web browser or your Windows application so your users can easily zoom, pan, scroll, and navigate the documents.

Format!
You have full control over the formatting of paragraphs, tables, fonts, colors, alignment, and justification, as well as scaling, cropping, and aligning graphics.

Print!
Printing over the Web? No problem! You also get fast display and the ability to both move pages within a document, and to define and print complex page ranges.

Export!
Export documents to RTF, HTML, and PDF formats.

Features

• VSReport8 and its companion Report Designer and wizard, which generate your database reports.
• VSPrinter8, a standalone control that handles all of your previewing, printing, and exporting requirements. .

VSReport8 and the Companion Report Designer
TThe VSReport8 control reads report definitions stored in XML files, combines them with data from ADO/DAO recordsets or custom data sources, and generates reports that can be previewed, printed, or saved to files. It can create reports in HTML, DHTML, PDF, and Text file formats, as well as in a native VSPrinter8 format. The VSReport8 control supports most features found in Microsoft® Access reports, such as:

• A Microsoft Access-style banded-report model based on Groups, Sections, and Fields.
• Fields may be bound to simple and binary (object) database fields.
• Fields may contain VBScript expressions, including extensions for aggregate expressions (Sum, Max, Average, etc.), and have access to the control's object model.
• Reports may contain event handlers, making them independent of the host application.
• Reports may contain subreports.
• Reports may contain parameterized queries, allowing your users to customize the report by adding/limiting the data that should be included in the report.
• Report definitions may be saved within the control at design time, or loaded at run time from XML report definition files.

The VSReport8 control can be distributed royalty-free with your applications.

Use the companion WYSIWYG Report Designer to create, edit, load, and save report definition files. Report definition files are XML files that may contain multiple reports, and can be read by the VSReport8 control. The Report Designer can import report definitions from Microsoft Access MDB files, and can also import report definitions from VSReports™ 1.0 VSR files. The Report Designer has a user interface similar to the Microsoft Access report designer, including a wizard that makes report creation a breeze.

The Report Designer is not royalty-free.

The VSPrinter8 Control
The VSPrinter8 control provides the VSReport8 control with previewing and printing capabilities, plus can be used to create documents without VSReport8. Depending on what you want to do, you may use the VSReport8 control along with the VSPrinter8 control. For example, to preview a report, you'll use the VSPrinter8 and VSReport8 controls. The VSReport8 control reads data from a database, formats it according to the report definition, and sends its output to the VSPrinter8 control.

Features include:

RTF, HTML, and PDF Export
You can export documents (including their font/paragraph formatting and tables) to RTF, HTML, and PDF formats. The HTML export filter also allows for paged HTML output, which generates a series of hyperlinked HTML pages.

Internet Awareness
You can load documents located on your Web site directly into a control hosted by a browser on the client’s machine. You can also monitor the document downloading process and the control state in general.

Tables
You can create tables with rows that span page breaks, row and column spanning (cell merging), vertical text in table cells, and custom borders on a per-row/per-column basis. You can also add custom contents to individual table cells, suppress repeated values, add spacing before and after each row, and more.

Document Navigation
Allow end users to browse through the preview document, zoom in and out, and print! Navigation with the mouse wheel and keyboard is also supported.

Pictures
You can clip, tile, and zoom pictures (scale them while preserving aspect ratio). This is especially useful for handling pictures that come from databases and may have varying dimensions.

Styles
Define, apply, save, and load styles that define the properties for pages, paragraphs, characters, and graphical objects! This makes it easy to create documents with consistent formatting, favors separating formatting from content generation, and eliminates the need to save several controls properties in order to restore them after rendering parts of the document that have special formatting.

Page Ranges
You can also include retrievable, invisible tags in documents. You can use tags to implement pop-up help, hyperlinks, and many other interesting and useful elements.

Active Documents
Easily retrieve text from a document: search for a string within a document or retrieve the contents of an area on a page.

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