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Hi,

I've written this for another project where I needed a print preview and some advances features for creating
documents (and later print them or save them to pdf) like automatic page breaks, headers, footers etc.

Main features:

• creating a document once and later output it to CanvasGadet, Window, Image, printer, pdf (not windows) or svg (only Linux)
• text and image cells with custom border, filling, text alignment, font etc.
• horizontal, vertical and free lines
• rectangles, curves, ellipses and ellipse segments
• auto-invoked headers and footers, for the whole document or for a single page
• auto page breaks
• avoiding page breaks within connected element blocks
• auto page numbers with free start value, excluding of pages from numbering, total number of pages etc.
• possibility to display the document as single pages or as a list of pages (for print preview, see example code)

It's still work in progress and not tested in all cases, but I think I'ts already useable.

code: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hgzh/ ... r/VecVi.pb
example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hgzh/ ... preview.pb

Nice work.

Did you try

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=67703

The purePDF module on the forum can also be used to create PDF documents on windows systems.

Regards

CD

Thanks a lot for sharing this great code
Works fine here W7 x86 / V5.61 x86

Very interesting! Runs fine here on Win10, thank you

After a long time, I uploaded a new version with some smaller bug fixes and
a new output channel (image on canvas) to improve performance.

I've also written a fork of VecVi that uses PurePDF to create pdf files on windows,
if someone is interested in this, I can publish it, too.

This has potential as a Report Generator.
Not sure why pdf would not work on Windows?
This version does not have a save to pdf option?
v.1.06 (2019-01-31)

very good project, thank you for sharing
 

I use PB's PdfVectorOutput() which is not supported on Windows. On Linux and MacOS,
you can use VecVi::OutputPDF(). For PDF output on Windows, there is the fork with
PurePDF usage mentioned in my previous post.