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ANN: ReportBuilder 7.0 for Delphi 6 is now available.
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ANN: ReportBuilder 7.0 for Delphi 6 is now available.


Hi All!

At the end of last year, we sent out a notification which essentially said: "Vote for RB as Product of the Year and we will deliver the Server Edition." As RB developers are a truly awesome group, you did the impossible and made us a four time winner of Product of the Year! This sends a clear message to Borland and to the developer community: "RB is the best!"
About a week ago, we delivered on our half of the bargain, releasing the Server Edition for Delphi 6. It is now possible to publish your reports to the web with only three lines of Delphi code!!! The new Server Edition is truly a technical wonder, and if you need reports on the web, you should check out the trial edition at:
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/server/TrialEdition.html
We also announced a new upgrade policy. In order to fund the continuing development of RB, while maintaining the incredible level of technical support that we provide, we do need to start charging for upgrades. We understand that this may come as a bit of a shock to long-time users, but the maturity of the Delphi market and of ReportBuilder itself, means that it is no longer feasible for new users to pay for everything. As a result, the new upgrade policy has been put in place.          However, in appreciation of our long-time customers, we are offering an "Early Adopter Special". Purchase your Legacy upgrade on or before September 30, 2002, and get RB 7.0 at the REGULAR UPGRADE PRICE!!! Here's how much you save:
Early Adopter Special:                                    Legacy Regular You Save                                ---------- ---------- ----------   ReportBuilder Enterprise $549.00 $275.00 $274.00   ReportBuilder Professional $349.00 $175.00 $174.00   ReportBuilder Standard $149.00 $75.00 $74.00
So if you need D7 support or any of the RB 7.0 enhancements we encourage you to upgrade now. The online order form is available at:
http://www.digital-metaphors.com/Secure/OrderForm.html
We greatly appreciate your support over the years and we look forward to working with you in the years to come!
Sincerely,
The DM Creative Team --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Metaphors Corporation http://www.digital-metaphors.com mailto:✉digital-metaphors.com

---------------------------------------------------------------------------   UPGRADE PRICING ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Original Purchase Date Upgrade Fee Schedule ---------------------- -------------------- July 1, 2002 or later Free November 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002 Regular Upgrade October 31, 2001 or prior Legacy Upgrade
Regular Upgrade Fees:
  ReportBuilder Enterprise US $275.00   ReportBuilder Professional US $175.00   ReportBuilder Standard US $75.00
Legacy Upgrade Fees:
  ReportBuilder Enterprise US $549.00   ReportBuilder Professional US $349.00   ReportBuilder Standard US $149.00
---------------------------------------------------------------------------   UPGRADE BENEFITS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Purchase an upgrade to ReportBuilder 7 and receive these valuable benefits:
1. Delphi 6 support. Purchase now and we will send you the download link for the Delphi 6 version of your edition. Delphi 5 support will be available soon.
2. Delphi 7 support. As soon as we receive a Delphi 7 CD from Borland, we will finalize the Server, Enterprise, Professional and Standard editions and notify you with a download link.
3. Maintenances releases through August 31, 2003.
4. Upgraded versions through August 31, 2003. We have already committed to full text search and background printing (via a thread) as the next major enhancements. We expect these enhancements to be available within the next month or two. Other minor enhancements will follow as the DM Creative Team continues to move ReportBuilder forward.
5. All bug fixes and enhancements since November, 2001. Version 6.03 was released last November - all issues which have been resolved for this version are included in RB 7.0. See the list of fixes below for details.
6. Delphi 8 support is not included in this upgrade. We currently do not know whether Borland will release a Delphi 8, or what that release might include and so have no way to estimate the cost of such an effort.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------   Enhancements for Version 7.0 - 9/2/2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Server Edition
Version 7 of ReportBuilder marks the release of the Server Edition. The Server Edition represents over a years' worth of effort on the part of DM. We think that you will be absolutely blown away by this product, and how easy it makes web reporting. Check out the Trial Edition at:
   http://www.digital-metaphors.com/server/TrialEdition.html
2. Thread safe DADE, RAP and Report Engine
In order to make the Server Edition possible, the data processing engine (DADE), Object Pascal interpreter (RAP) and the report engine were all made thread-safe. This means that you can now count on thread safety when pursuing options such as background processing of print jobs, etc.
3. Outline
A TreeView summarizing the structure of the generated report and providing clickable nodes which take you to the page for given content is now displayed in the Print Preview form. The main report, groups and section type subreports can participate in the generation of the Outline. Use the OutlineSettings property for each of these objects to control the generation of the outline.
4. PreviewFormSettings
The main report component (TppReport) now contains a PreviewFormSettings property. Use this to control the initial WindowState, ZoomSetting and ZoomPercentage of the Preview Form (and say goodbye to all of those OnPreviewFormCreate event handlers!)
5. DBArchiveReader   This new component makes it easy to preview and print report archives stored in database BLOB fields.
6. DBImage auto loading
When assigned to a database field with a string data type, the DBImage component will now automatically assume that the string field contains the full path and file name to an image file and attempt to load that image from file when it generates.
7. Enhanced TeeChart support
It is no longer necessary to purchase the registered version of TeeChart in order to print and preview reports containing charts. If you need to redistribute the TeeChart UI as part of an end-user reporting solution (and you are not building your application with packages), then it is still necessary to purchase TeeChart. The dcu files for the TeeChart UI are not (and never have been) included with the 'free' version of TeeChart which installs with Delphi.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------   Fixes for Version 7.0 - 9/2/2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. When an application did not have access to a printer, a 'Canvas does not allow drawing' exception was raised in some cases.
2. When loading a template, the PaperName may not be restored properly.
3. When printing to the printer, and the printer setup was changed, the report engine was not always reset.
4. When report archive file was too big to fit on disk, the archive device needed to free the streams and the temporary file.
5. Enhanced DBImage so that it can be assigned to a string field containing file references, which can then be used to load the images from the file.
6. When a data pipeline is used in a Master/Detail configuration (MasterDataPipeline/MasterFieldLinks) and the master field has a null value, exceptions were raised due to changes in Delphi 6, Service Pack 2.
7. When a crosstab attempted to compare null values to non-null values, an exception was raised under Delphi 6, Service Pack 2.
8. Crosstab raised 'List Index out of bounds' error when multiple subtotal rows were set to Visible = False.
9. When subreports contained columnar layouts, left-to-right traversal did not work properly.

For a full listing of fixes and enhancements, see the History of ReportBuilder Versions topic in the on-line help. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital Metaphors Corporation http://www.digital-metaphors.com mailto:✉digital-metaphors.com
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