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Fast Reports, Inc. has announced that its key report generator, FastReport VCL RAD Edition, will be supplied as part of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 (Pulsar), a new version of the comprehensive application development suite. Differences between editions:

Dear friends,You can now vote for FastReport.Net and Fast Reports in the DevProConnections 2011 Community Choice Award until 7th September!http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/devproconnections-communitychoice2011-finalvotingPoints 18 and 28PS: You can also vote for Delphi XE at Point 14 ! :-)

FastReports are pleased to invite you to the Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2 World Tour.With RAD Studio XE2 you will be able to create 64-bit Windows Delphi applications to take advantage of the latest hardware, access more memory and push the performance envelope. You will be able to deploy your applications on Windows and Mac and more. Also you will receive RAD Editions of FastReport VCL and FastReport.Net with RAD Studio XE2.Register today for a free live event near you:http://embarcadero.com/world-tour

Version 1.7===========+ added import plugin for Crystal Reports+ added Config.DesignerSettings.PageAdded event+ added Config.PreviewSettings.AllowPrintToFile property+ added Report.MaxPages property+ added MatrixObject.KeepCellsSideBySide property+ added outline in PDF export+ added properties TableRow.KeepRows, TableColumn.KeepColumns+ added TableObject.ManualBuildAutoSpans property+ added ability to hide some objects (export filters, report objects) by the code: RegisteredObjects.FindObject(typeof(PDFExport)).Enabled = false* improved report file cache* improved .fpx loading speed/memory usage* CheckBoxObject available in the Basic edition- fixed bug with rendering of text in WebReport when TextObject.WordWrap = false- fixed memory leak when exporting to PDF with embedded fonts- fixed bug with band break- fixed bug with information fields in encrypted PDF file- fixed bug with page borders and fill in PDF export- fixed bug in RichObject- fixed bug in the report preview- fixed bug when saving the report as a class- fixed bug with some image types- fixed bug with text break- fixed bug with events- fixed RichObject height issue- fixed bug in PDF export (missing pictures when viewing under MAC OS X or iOS)- fixed bug with grid alignment- fixed bug with band's CanBreak and outline- fixed bug when exporting to metafile- fixed bug with unary minus with totals- fixed bug with watermark

FastReports will take part as a sponsor in the Annual Conference for Software Developers in Piracicaba, Brazil.FastReports CEO Michael Philippenko will speak about FastReport VCL 5, FastCube 2 and FastReport.Net and Mono.You have a last chance to participate in the main Firebird event in Brazil on 23rd July:http://www.firebirddevelopersday.com.br/fdd/2011/

1. From the version 4.9 FastReport Studio has new name. From now FastReport Studio Developer Edition names FastReport for COM/ActiveX, FastReport Studio Business Edition - FastReport for Business.These names more storng describe targets of products.2. 11 of July FastReport for COM/ActiveX and FastReport for Business v.4.9 releasedWhat news?+ pictures format in all exports switched to PNGIt gives possibilities to use all the preferences of the PNG-formats, like quality, alpha-channels, size (in BIFF and HTML). Also it solves problems with preview on Apple-devices.+ added export to DBF format - it can be use for data exchange of modules of different business applications+ added new property ExpandDrillDown to IfrxReport interface - it allows control DrillDown reports programmaticallyVersion 4.9-------- fixed bug in the PDF export in rotating texts 90, 180 and 270 degrees- fixed bug in the ODF export in processing of headers and footers- fixed bug in the Text export in computing object bounds- fixed bug in the ODF export in UTF8 encoding- fixed hiding gridlines around nonempty cells in the BIFF export+ added property TfrxODFExport.SingleSheet+ added property TfrxSimpleTextExport.DeleteEmptyColumns- fixed images bluring when exporting+ optimised merging cells in the BIFF export- fixed word wrapping in the Excel XML export- fixed bug in XML export with the ShowProgress property- fixed bug in RTF export with font size in empty cells- fixed bug in ODF export with UTF8 encoding of the Creator field- fixed bug in XML export with processing special characters in strings- fixed bug in ODF export with properties table:number-columns-spanned, table:number-rows-spanned- fixed bug in ODF export with the background clNone color- fixed bug in ODF export with a style of table:covered-table-cell- fixed bug in ODF export with table:covered-table-cell duplicates- fixed bug in ODF export with excessive text:p inside table:covered-table-cell- fixed bug in ODF export with language styles- fixed bug in ODF export with spaces and tab symbols- fixed bug in ODF export with styles of number cells- fixed bug in ODF export with the background picture- fixed bug in ODF export with charspacing- fixed bug in ODF export with number formatting- fixed bug in ODF export with table-row tag- fixed bug in XLS(OLE) export with numbers formatting- fixed bug in RTF export with processing RTF fields- fixed bug with processing special symbols in HTML Export- fixed bug with UTF8 encoding in ODF export- fixed bug in PDF export with underlined, struck-out and rotated texts