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===About===
 
===About===
 
PowerPDF is a set of visual and non-visual components, which can be used to create PDF documents.
 
PowerPDF is a set of visual and non-visual components, which can be used to create PDF documents.

Revision as of 21:33, 9 December 2005

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About

PowerPDF is a set of visual and non-visual components, which can be used to create PDF documents.

Author

The components were originally written by Takeshi Kanno.

The Lazarus port was done by Chtk and jesusrmx. Some Lazarus examples have been created by Xno.

Licence

The Delphi version of PowerPDF is licensed under the LGPL. The Lazarus port is as well.

Download

PowerPDF for Lazarus can be downloaded from the Lazarus CCR SourceForge mirror or from here.

Requirements

PowerPDF for Lazarus has been tested with Lazarus 0.9.10 and the 0.9.11 nightly builds. Earlier versions have been untested.

PowerPDF for Lazarus depends on the JPEGForLazarus package, which should be in your Lazarus installation directory in \components\jpeg.

Installation

  • First install JPEGForLazarus. This can be skipped if JPEGForLazarus is already installed
  1. Open the jpegforlazarus.lpk file in the direcotry <Lazarus-install-dir>\components\jpeg
  2. Click the Compile button
  3. If there were no errors when compiling, press Install to install the jpeg components in the Lazarus IDE.
  4. Lazarus should restart.
  5. Make sure JPEGForLazarus was successfully installed by checking under the 'Components->Package Graph' menu if JPEGForLazarus is mentioned there.
  • Next install PowerPDF
  1. Open the pack_powerpdf.lpk file in Lazarus.
  2. Click the Compile button.
  3. If compiling went OK, click the Install button.
  4. Lazarus should restart.
  5. Make sure PowerPDF (pack_powerpdf) was successfully installed by checking under the 'Components->Package Graph'