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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

One of the leading worldwide producers of reporting tools for .Net and Delphi developers - Fast Reports Inc. - today opens sales in Japan with their first fully localized Japanese version of their flagship FastReports.NET product. This has been made possible by one of Japan's largest packaged software distributors AG-Tech Corporation, the exclusive distributor of Fast Reports Inc. products in Japan. Michael Philippenko, CEO of Fast Reports says "We are glad to be able work with such a highly professional team as AG-Tech. They have prepared for us a fully localized version of our flagship product FastReport.Net for the Japanese market. It is important to say also that AG-Tech has the necessary rich experience we required of working in the Business Intelligence market in Japan. All the preparation of product, support, sales and marketing materials took about one year, so now we are fully confident in the high quality of tech support, documentation and product which will now be offering in their native language to Japanese software developers." Yoshio Ando, CEO of AG-Tech Corporation says "In FastReports.NET we have found a high quality, compact, reasonably priced and fast reporting tool to offer to the Japanese market. By offering a fully localized product combined with our experienced team of local support and sales engineers, we feel we can offer Japanese report developers and standalone report users a fully featured complete reporting solution.　Furthermore later on this year, we plan to be able to launch a Japanese version of Fast Report's VCL report generator product for Delphi." About AG-TECH Corporation AG-TECH Corporation (Head Office: Tokyo Japan; President: Yoshio Ando), is a company with over 25 years of experience in localizing, selling and importing packaged software into the Japanese market. They have been active in the Japanese Business Intelligence market for many years, having been in the past distributors for Crystal Reports and current distributors for ACL Services Ltd. ( the leading global provider of audit analytics and continuous monitoring software ).

FastReport VCL 4.11-------------------------+ added BIFF8 XLS export filter+ added to ODF export the Language property+ [enterprise] added "scripts" folder for additional units ("uses" directive in report script)+ [enterprise] added logs for scheduler (add info in scheduler.log)+ [enterprise] added property "Reports" - "Scripts" in server configuration - set the path for "uses" directive in report script+ [enterprise] added property "Http" - "MaxSessions" in server configuration - set the limit of maximum session threads, set 0 for unlimit+ [enterprise] added property "Reports" - "MaxReports" in server configuration - set the limit of maximum report threads, set 0 for unlimit+ [enterprise] added property "Logs" - "SchedulerLog" in server configuration - set the scheduler log file name+ [enterprise] added property "Scheduler" - "Active" in server configuration - enable of scheduler+ [enterprise] added property "Scheduler" - "Debug" in server configuration - enable writing of debug info in scheduler log+ [enterprise] added property "Scheduler" - "StudioPath" in server configuration - set the path to FastReport Studio, leave blank for default- [enterprise] fixed bug with MIME types in http header (content-type)- [enterprise] fixed bug with default configuration (with missed config.xml)- [enterprise] fixed bug with error pages- 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

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This is great news for us and for all our customers. Now the FastReport becomes better known throughout the world. Thank you our dear customers - at affordable price, we compete with more expensive products. So you agree that the main thing - the quality of the product. We will continue to delight you with quality products for developing and implementing Business Intelligence.

Version 1.6 --------------- + added ability to save template to RDL format (Report Definition Language) * changed work of exports and printing in WebReport, now we use handlers in "web.config" + added Romanian, Hungarian, Japanese and Thai localization + added Report.InitialPageNumber property + added TextObject.ParagraphOffset property + added PreviewControl.UseBackColor property + added IsNull function to check DB columns for null + added import of WritingMode property when import template from RDL format + added saving of TextObject.Angle property when saving template in RDL format + added FNC1 symbol encoding in the Datamatrix barcode (use &1; sequence) + added Open Document Text, XPS, DBF exports in WebReport * added ability to replace built-in query builder - fixed "Scale" print mode - fixed bug with RichObject and CanShrink - fixed bug in TextObject break - fixed bug in TextObject.TabWidth - fixed bug when saving the prepared report with UseFileCache flag - fixed RichObject multi-thread issues - fixed bug when opening some saved to RDL reports in the Report Builder - fixed bug in the Group Expert - fixed bug with ChartObject filter when saving the report as a C#/VB.Net class - fixed bug when converting boolean expressions in the RDL import - fixed bug with internal manifest in ODF export