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Welcome to the Digital Metaphors website, where we share information and insight on ReportBuilder, the premier reporting tool for Delphi developers!

What's New

ReportBuilder 22.03 now available!

New features

  • Support for Delphi 12
  • new Docx (Word) Device
  • new PDF Device, Digital Signature features
  • new PDF Device, Native font processing
  • new PDF Device ZUGFeRD attachment streaming
  • new QRCode EPC support
  • new DataMatrix GS1 support
  • new PDFComponent load from DataPipeline, File, Stream
  • new PDFComponent PrintBehaviors: Section, Fixed
  • new PDFComponent, Page Layer support
  • new Web/Cloud Services, Credential saving
  • new Web/Cloud Services, Refresh Token support
  • new Outlook Email plug-in features
  • new EMail features
  • new Cloudrive features
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Recent Posts

ANN: ReportBuilder 22.03 is now available including Delphi 12 support!

November 10, 2023

          ReportBuilder 22.03 is now available including support for the latest Delphi release, Delphi 12! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21827/reportbuilder-22-03-is-now-available-including-delphi-12-support Upgrade now!

RB 22.02

ANN: ReportBuilder 22.02 is now available!

June 9, 2023

          ReportBuilder 22.02 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21785/reportbuilder-22-02-is-now-available Upgrade now!

ANN: ReportBuilder 22.01 is now available!

March 9, 2023

          ReportBuilder 22.01 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21751/reportbuilder-22-01-is-now-available Upgrade now!

ANN: ReportBuilder 22.0 is now available!

February 10, 2023

            ReportBuilder 22.0 is now available! For this release, we focused on a number of requested features as well as optimization and ease-of-use.  We will be firing off new blog posts and RBWiki articles as fast as we can to highlight some of the work that was done. See the […]

ANN: ReportBuilder 21.05 is now available!

September 16, 2022

            ReportBuilder 21.05 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21694/reportbuilder-21-05-is-now-available Upgrade now!

Automatically Signing a PDF with ReportBuilder

August 10, 2022

Have you ever needed to be sure a document sent is the one being read? We all know that the Internet is a dangerous place for unprotected data. Transferring any un-encrypted data is fair game to be intercepted, stolen, or altered. Digital Signatures are an excellent way to avoid some these problems. Digital Signatures offer […]

ANN: ReportBuilder 21.04 is now available!

May 26, 2022

              ReportBuilder 21.04 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21594/reportbuilder-21-04-is-now-available Upgrade now!

Email: Multi-Service

January 25, 2022

One of the new and exciting features added for ReportBuilder 21 is the ability to register and use multiple email plugins at once. ReportBuilder has supported sending emails from within the product since version 10. This was done by registering a single Email Plugin, each of which supported a different email-sending technology. Initially it was […]

ANN: ReportBuilder 21.03 is now available!

January 21, 2022

            ReportBuilder 21.03 is now available! See the official announcement on our forums by clicking the link below. https://www.digital-metaphors.com/forums/discussion/21594/reportbuilder-21-03-is-now-available Upgrade now!

TLS Handshake

TLS Version and Indy

January 5, 2022

  I was recently asked if the ReportBuilder Indy email plugin supports TLS version 1.2. The answer depended on whether Indy supports TLS 1.2, which thankfully it does! Many email providers (i.e. Gmail and Outlook) are now requiring the use of this version to connect to their SMTP servers. After researching a bit, I found […]