Print Preview OCX / ActiveX: ViewPro by HexaTech

You can use the pint preview OCX / ActiveX control to create sophisticated run-time reports or technical drawings that are difficult or impossible to achieve with a static report writer. The pint preview ocx control lets you place tables, graphs, pictures and drawings onto text report pages, which can be imported or exported as WMF or EMF windows metafiles. Furthermore, the pint preview ActiveX / OCX control supports RTF rich text for generating complex text reports; and you can even embed RTF text inside table cells. The pint preview OCX / ActiveX control supports scripting for generating new reports or drawings without recompiling your applications.

The advanced edition of the pint preview OCX / ActiveX control --- ViewPro Advanced (VPA) even allows you to visually or programmatically edit or modify reports that have been already generated at runtime. This feature allows you to generate reports that are unknown until being customized by your users at runtime, or allows you to develop customized run-time report designers or editors, layout editors, or other visual editing tools, all with this single capable pint preview OCX / ActiveX control.

Visual Report or Layout Design for the Print Preview OCX Control
The pint preview OCX / ActiveX control allows you to use Visual Basic's own form to visually design your report template at design time; and later fill out the template to produce the report at run time. Alternatively, you can use HexaTech Report Designer for visual design, which was developed with the advanced edition of the pint preview OCX / ActiveX control itself (the Visual Basic source code is included with the product).

Application Areas of the Print Preview OCX Control
The pint preview OCX / ActiveX control can be used as a powerful print engine and print preview control for a wide variety of printing and reporting applications. The following is just a partial list: produce text or graphics reports; produce technical drawings; produce charts, diagrams or graphs; perform for publication automation; embed third-party ActiveX charts in report pages; visually fill out virtually any pre-printed forms such as bank checks, air flight tickets, medical bills, state and federal government forms etc.; produce documents for faxing; print VB forms in vector or bitmap format; produce mailing labels; produce tables or spreadsheets; and a lot more, all with this single capable pint preview OCX / ActiveX control.

Advantages of the Print Preview OCX Control
The pint preview OCX / ActiveX control has many advantages for print preview. The following are the reasons why you should choose the control as your print preview control:   the pint preview ocx control allows you to add powerful print preview capabilities to your own forms or dialog boxes. The print preview activex control can create extremely sophisticated run-time reports or technical drawings that you can not achieve using a static report writer. The control gives you a complete control over your page layouts and interior details for your report print preview pages. On your print preview text pages, the print preview ocx control lets you place bitmaps, graphs, charts, diagrams and drawings. The control supports continuous page zooming, scaling, and scrolling for your print preview pages. On your print preview pages, the control supports robust words, lines, paragraphs, tables, and bitmaps that can be dynamically adjusted and resized at run-time. The control can automatically wrap paragraph text or table cell text within the individual object border. The print preview ocx control allows you to do flexible text wrapping for text lines, paragraphs, or text within table cells for print preview report text. Your print preview pages can use CAD drawing (lines, rectangles, ellipses, polylines, polygons etc) with different line/fill patterns. Your print preview reports can use RTF rich text or embed RTF in table cells. The print preview ocx control can export and import your print preview pages as enhanced metafile (.EMF) or Windows metafile (.WMF), which can be accepted by many other applications such as Microsoft Word.  If you are looking for a versatile print preview ocx control, this is the right one for you, the powerful print preview control for Visual Basic, Delphi, Visual C++ and other programming langauges that support ActiveXs.

Comments from ViewPro Users

Bill Plummer" "So far, I've not found anything that ViewPro cannot do. After failing with Crystal and others it is a relief to find one that works."

Kevin Sehl: "Thanks again for a great product and solution to the Crystal nightmare."

Peter Smith: "Great product by the way, it works better than all the other similar tools we tested."

Scott Brunner: "I just have to say one thing: ViewPro is AWESOME! It’s the perfect control for my application. It’s exactly what I was looking for. Great job!"

David Fulton: "ViewPro is great. Gee I wish I had this two years ago."

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