Last few days I had an opportunity to see what FastReports are capable. The key is the previewer, not the designer. Imagine that you designed a complex report. Now, imagine that the previewer can EXPORT your report to a PDF, XLS (with wysiwyg), RTF, CSV, TXT, HTML, directly send e-mail... you dont need to do additional programing. For me it was great to see the power of having format conversion capabilities.