witch "canvas"/ export format does the new report uses?
I have implemented PDF and PNG (via
AggPas) exporting options for fpReport. They are considered the reference implementations. Other developers will be welcome to contribute alternative exporting options - the more the better. The AggPas based export class can be used to export to other images formats too, but PNG is preferred.
The reason I chose AggPas (instead of say FPCanvas) is because AggPas has far superior anti-aliased and sub-pixel graphics rendering. (
see here) Saying that, a FPCanvas/FPImage version will probably be implemented too.
btw.. im working now on an json like data format witch may be usefull to supply data to the report tool to avoid db dependency
fpReport currently persists (read & write) report designs to a JSON file. For actual reporting data, fpReport can report from any data. I've created sample reports reporting from a TStringList, TObjectList and a DB Dataset. Using JSON as a data source is a good solution too - I use it in other projects to feed Charting widgets with data, and it works very well. JSON is so much better than XML.