We are shopping for a good reporting component that also supports
printing/previewing of barcodes. Any suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks
Andrew

Andrew,

Check out a trial version of ReportBuilder Pro. It has built-in support
for barcodes as well as plenty of other pwoerful features. The Pro
version also enables you to deliver powerful, professional end-user
reporting solutions royalty-free.

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The press release is available at

http://digital-metaphors.com/news01.html

You can download a trial version from:

http://digital-metaphors.com/prodprodemo1.html

Ordering info is available at

https://secure.unicomp.net/digital-metaphors/

With the trial version you can create reports just as you would with the
registered version, the only limitations are max of 5 pages of output
for any report and if you print to the printer, our company info will
print on the page also.

For a quick look at what ReportBuilder is capable of run the demos:

1. RBuilder Pro\Demos\Reports\Demo.dpr - contains over 70 sample reports
that show the various cabalities of the product. Serves as a great
learning tool also.

2. RBuilder Pro\Demos\EndUser\EndUser.dpr - contains a complete,
professional end-user reporting solution built using our End-User
Reporting Framework.

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ReportBuilder Features
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Report Designer                 Full-featured, Office97 compliant

OnePass/TwoPass Report Engine   Instant page generation,
                                incremental caching

Text, Line & Shape Components   Work just like Delphi counterparts

Image Components                Bitmaps and WMFs supported

Rich Text Components            Stretches across pages, great for
                                mail-merge

Memo Components                 Stretches across pages

BarCode Components              Code 128, UPC-A, Code39,
                                Int2of5, EAN-13

SubReports                      Free-form, side-by-side, nested,
                                drill-down

Extensible Components           Create either static or
                                stretchable descendants

Columnar Reports                Spreadsheet-style reports and
                                mailing labels

Full Printer Control            Envelopes, custom-paper sizes,
                                duplex printing

Templates (Report Layouts)      Save report definitions in
                                database fields or files, deploy
                                new reports without recompiling

Precision                       Position components up to 1/1000
                                of a millimeter

International Language Support  11 languages, *all* strings and
                                messages translated

Archive (Native Report Output)  Print reports to stand-alone
                                files, preview later

Text File Output                Comma, tab and fixed length
                                formats supported

Open Data Output                Create support for new file
                                formats

Native Data Access (via BDE)    Access data via Delphi DataSources

Native Text File Access         Access text files directly,
                                compile w/out BDE

Open Data Access                Create your own data access,
                                compile w/out BDE

ActiveX Archive Print Preview   Preview archived reports in an
                                HTML Browser

ReportBuilder Pro Features
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Everything in ReportBuilder plus:      

End-User Report Designer        Deploy an interface your users
                                already know

End-User Reporting Framework    Allow end-users to manage
                                reports and data

Report Wizard                   Create new reports with a few
                                clicks of the mouse

Query Wizard                    Create new data with a few
                                clicks of the mouse

Good luck!

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Digital Metaphors       http://www.digital-metaphors.com

Markku,

It's being worked on... :-}

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Digital Metaphors       http://www.digital-metaphors.com

Someone said (could have been me too..) that the ReportBuilder code is ok,
but the documentation is quite lousy.
Has there been some change in that, or is the situation still the same ?

Markku Nevalainen