>>>Did you try or use it? I tried years ago with no success... Last version seem 2009. I can't use a dead tool except VFP... ;)
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>>Hey Metin!!! :))
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>>RS is NOT dead.
>>I was extremely busy past two years but that is all. RS Will be published as open source soon enough and it will include
>>all advanced features such are report drilldowns (clickable report surface / see attachment), hyperlinks, mix orientation etc. Maybe even some (simple) end user report designer.
>>With RS you CAN in fact do your own simple report designer. This was in fact one of original hopes of the project
>>that people will do their own custom report designers with it.
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>>Now you got me perplexed; You had trouble implementing it ?? (Whereas I thought it was extremely easy.)
>>What did you find as a problem ? Why you did not contact me ?
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>Hi Srdjan,
>
>I can't remember.
>You're a good friend and developer Srdjan. But you publish it as open source and free. You have to earn money and work for other things so you cannot update it of course.

I am NOT a consultant who needs to run for as many gigs possible. Last couple of years I was expanding my systems rapidly due to business expansion, so I was working both my spare time and evening hours for my daily job. This situation is likely to continue so I will not have any other choice but to publish it open source. However, once open source it will be all in your good hands. :)

>
>Actually XFRX is a good previewer and output types. If your tool can visually create-design VFP report's or if it can give me a template (where are controls and their's names) I can run it with XFRX or create layout with XFRX's report generator thing...


I am using XFRX myself for very long time, and moreover I integrated it with RS. So, if you are owner of XFRX licence, you can use XFRX along with RS to get any file format supported by XFRX. Natively, RS does PDF (DorinV haruPdf lib) and multipage TIF exports while all other formats are available via XFRX. I strongly recommend XFRX as frx report converter tool. (Fair price, reliable etc) and even wrote one prototype of RS on top of XFRX scripting (less known but valuable xfrx feature!) sometime back in 2005/2006.

As for report preview/print you should take a look at RS preview facility with advanced preview features (report navigation, live surface, drill-downs, hyperlinks etc) in the next version of RS. I am using it for past 3-4 years and it is serving my users very very well. Had very few minor issues reported, which I meanwhile fixed in version I am using.

It will be all included in next release. :)

HTH
Sergio