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Google Maps Update

frontline — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:24:58 +0000

It's been a long while since we worked with embedded maps in RB. Lately a customer has shown interest in the ability so we dusted it off and gave it another try. Back when we first did it, we simply dropped a map component down, added our API key and Address, and the map was drawn. But now we get "Map Unavailable" Our Google Developer Console shows the key as having access to Geocoding, Directions, and Maps Javascript APIs. We know the API key is "good" as we draw a map in another component. Has there been some updates we are unaware of? Some additional settings or requirements?

PDF embedding of fonts with subsets – Euro symbol missing

fdohg — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:39:21 +0000

Hello, I am trying to create a PDFA and embed only some of the fonts it contains in order to keep the file size small. To do this, I have set the settings in the report file to efAllFonts and efUseSubset in PDFSettings - EmbededFontOptions and feAnsi is selected in PDFSettings - FontEncoding. Unfortunately, the resulting PDFAs do not receive the glyph for the euro symbol used in the report file and the display in the PDFAs is incorrect. Without the efUseSubset option, I get valid PDFAs that contain the euro symbol. I am using Windows 10 Pro, Borland Delphi 2006 version 10.0.2558.35231 Update 2, and ReportBuilder Professional Edition version 14.08 Build 48. Best regards

Error loading report

Felixinasa — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:37:52 +0000

Hello I’m using a custom ReportExplorer, and sometimes — only occasionally — a report does not load. However, if I select another report in the same folder, it loads correctly. Initially, I was loading the report using: FReportExplorer.PrintPreview(FListView.ItemName, FListView.FolderId) When the issue occurs, this call does nothing and no exception is raised. I changed it to: LoadReport(FListView.ItemName, FListView.FolderId) With this method, an exception is raised indicating that the report cannot be found. I’ve noticed that when this happens, FListView.FolderId has the value -1. To work around this, I switched to loading reports using LoadFromDatabase, but the problem still occurs (although less frequently). It's important to mention that I previously used Delphi 7 with an older version of ReportBuilder, and this issue never happened. The problem only started after upgrading to delphi 12.2 and the current version. Do you have any guidance on why FolderId might intermittently be -1, or how to ensure reports load reliably in this scenario? Thanks you

Slow Rendering Rich Text

edbuescher — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:34:19 +0000

I have a ppDBRichText control to render some text. This works fine until I try to modify the text with a GetRichText event, which slows down the rendering to over a second per page, and I have 50+ pages. I am simply "bolding" some characters inside the text string. I assume the issue is RB trying to render the formatting. If I only mess with the text by modifying it, without any richtext controls, RB works fine, but when I add the logic to "bold" some characters, it really slows down. My code is something like this: Text:='{\rtf1\ansi{\b '+Bold Text+'}}'; - this works fine other than being slow Is there a way to speed this up?

Query Designer / Query Builder shows black area – tables not visible (Delphi 12 + RB 23.01)

heitorfss — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:47:13 +0000

Hello, I’m facing a visualization issue with the Query Designer (Query Builder) after migrating from Delphi XE to Delphi 12, using ReportBuilder 23.01. Environment: Delphi 12 (VCL) ReportBuilder 23.01 Windows 10 / 11 VCL application (with VCL Styles enabled) Problem description: When opening the Query Designer, the window opens normally, but the “Available Tables” area is completely black, and no tables or content are rendered visually. The selected tables appear correctly in the lower panel. The database connection is valid and working. This is not a dataset or connection issue. The problem seems to be purely visual / rendering related. I’ve attached a screenshot showing the black area in the Query Designer. Notes: This worked correctly in older Delphi versions. Disabling VCL Styles or forcing the Windows theme seems to partially mitigate the issue. It looks related to VCL Styles and/or DPI awareness with Delphi 12. Has anyone experienced a similar issue with ReportBuilder 23.x? Is this a known bug, or is there a recommended workaround or hotfix? Thank you in advance. IMAGE: https://imgur.com/0NOSMpt

Infinite report generation

laurensvanrun — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:50:14 +0000

There are cases where a report continues generation infinite since it somehow have issues placing components on a page. We can always solve this by pinpointing the erroneous component and fixing the report. However, our end users are able to create their own designs and re-introduce this problem themselves. I want to prevent our software to have issues with these kind of reports. We now call

ppReport.PrintToDevices

and there the infinite generation/loop happens. Are there ways to "cancel" or "timeout" the generating of the report from code?

Usage of GDI32 in service process while drawing barcode (TppDrawBarCode)

laurensvanrun — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:40:27 +0000

We have (quite unpredictable) issues when using TppDrawBarCode in reports that are streamed to PDF in a Windows service. The situation where we get into is that generating a certain report in a background thread in a Windows service suddenly stops functioning correctly. This can only be resolved by restarting the server (restarting processes have no effect). Interesting enough is that, when we are in this failure state, generating the same report in interactive (UI) mode works flowless, but generating it from a background service creates a high CPU spike and the thread that is generating the report hangs. Running other Windows services generating the same report give the same issues when the OS/system is in this failure state. Interesting is that streaming a report as PDF !without! this barcode component works fine. In this failure state, the generating thread always hangs on Vcl.Graphics.TResourceManager.FreeResource (in the GDI32 call to _DeleteObject) with a high CPU spike (some internal loop in GDI?). After rebooting the server, the exact same code works perfectly for very long periods (days/weeks). We have seen that these issues surface after a period of time and this strengthen us in the conclusion that the GDI heap might get corrupted, or is incorrectly used in the barcode component, which causes this "corruption". We have multiple callstacks that all narrows down to the mentioned code (GDI32 _DeleteObject). Correct usage of GDI in a non-UI Windows service in background threads is challenging and I suspect that the issue origins from how this is used in the barcode component. After investigating the issue our suspicion is in (incorrect) usage of GDI32 in this barcode component. When generating the report (as PDF) TppPDFRendererGeneric.RenderToPDF calls TppDrawBarCode.AsMetaFile. Here we start doing GDI32 calls, for example setting the TBrush.SetColor or TCanvas.SetFont which are (sometimes) done on invalid/corrupted GDI handles. We have evidence of failures in at least the following two cases (callstacks) and here the thread hangs (with high CPU) in the TResourceManager.FreeResource.

_DeleteObject@4 TResourceManager.FreeResource TResourceManager.ChangeResource TBrush.SetData TBrush.SetColor TppDrawBarCode.AsMetaFile TppPDFRendererGeneric.RenderToPDF TppPDFDevice.DrawToPage TppPDFDevice.SavePageToFile TppFileDevice.ReceivePage

[77614628]{GDI32.dll } pldcGet [05237E49] Vcl.Graphics.TResourceManager.FreeResource [05237F45] Vcl.Graphics.TResourceManager.AssignResource [052386BC] Vcl.Graphics.TFont.Assign [0523A589] Vcl.Graphics.TCanvas.SetFont [075C91B6] ppBarCodDrwCmd.TppDrawBarCode.DrawBarCode (Line 985, "ppBarCodDrwCmd.pas") [075C765B] ppBarCodDrwCmd.TppDrawBarCode.CalcBarCodeSize (Line 462, "ppBarCodDrwCmd.pas") [075C7421] ppBarCodDrwCmd.TppDrawBarCode.AsMetaFile (Line 389, "ppBarCodDrwCmd.pas") [0502D3DF] SysUtils.AnsiCompareText [050D72EA] Classes.TStringList.CompareStrings [050D6BD8] Classes.TStringList.IndexOf [05114EE3] SyncObjs.TCriticalSection.Release [0502D3DF] SysUtils.AnsiCompareText [05114EE3] SyncObjs.TCriticalSection.Release [073CA4CE] ppPrintr.TppCustomPrinter.GetDC (Line 3672, "ppPrintr.pas") [073CA4EB] ppPrintr.TppCustomPrinter.GetDC (Line 3675, "ppPrintr.pas") [0502D3DF] SysUtils.AnsiCompareText [050D72EA] Classes.TStringList.CompareStrings [050D6BD8] Classes.TStringList.IndexOf [05114EE3] SyncObjs.TCriticalSection.Release [0502D3DF] SysUtils.AnsiCompareText [05114EE3] SyncObjs.TCriticalSection.Release [073CA4CE] ppPrintr.TppCustomPrinter.GetDC (Line 3672, "ppPrintr.pas") [073CA4EB] ppPrintr.TppCustomPrinter.GetDC (Line 3675, "ppPrintr.pas") [07609282] ppPDFRendererGeneric.TppPDFRendererGeneric.RenderToPDF (Line 79, "ppPDFRendererGeneric.pas") [075BCC85] ppPDFRenderer.TppPDFRenderer.SetGraphicsCanvas (Line 178, "ppPDFRenderer.pas") [076368A5] ppPDFDevice.TppPDFDevice.DrawToPage (Line 702, "ppPDFDevice.pas")

We have tested this in ReportBuilder 23.02, 22.06 and 22.02 when the system is in the failure state and all give the same issues.

TppRichText Component

tommyd — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:41:52 +0000

Is there a way to get the contents (Lines) of a TppRichText component only on the current printing page at runtime? The TppRichText component spans multiple pages and I want to be able to retrieve only the contents of each page as it is rendered. I'm using Delphi 13 and RB Version 23.02 Build 288.

Error "Cannot open file User/UserName/appdata/local/temp/2"

giacomocerati — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 06:57:17 +0000

Hi all, thanks in advance for the suggestions. In an installation on a remote server with TSplus (2 users) sometimes we get a random error when we try to open an rtm. The rtm and the pipeline can be each time different, sometimes it works and sometimes it gives the following error: "Cannot open file 'C:\Users\UserName\appdata\local\temp\2' The process cannot access to the directory because it is being used by another process". We are not able to reproduce the error and we have several installation with remote desktop that runs without problems. Our software doesn't store anything in that dir, can be something related to Report Builder? Can be linked to TSplus? Thank you.

Execute PDF export in thread fail to work ReportBuilder 23.02

ccy — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:57:43 +0000

Before ReportBuilder 23.02, PDF report generation worked correctly in multi-threaded applications. In ReportBuilder 23.02, the PDF report generation work for first time and freeze on 2nd time. I found out that it is due to changes in unit ppPDFRendererGeneric.pas:

procedure TppPDFRendererGeneric.RenderToPDF;
var
  lBitmap: TBitmap;
  lMetaFile: TMetaFile;
  lDrawImage: TppDrawImage;
  lRenderer: TppPDFRendererImage;
begin

  if (DrawCommand.Height = 0) or (DrawCommand.Width = 0) then Exit;

  lBitmap := nil;

  if (DrawCommand is TppDrawRichText) then  //Clear the global rich edit to reset rendering flags
    ppRichEdit.Clear;

ppRichEdit.Clear will fail to work in multi-threaded application.

Question about SVG support in TppImage

bohdan — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 10:05:27 +0000

Hi there, Can TppImage in Delphi work with SVG files? I can see that TImage supports SVG, but the GraphicType property in TppImage doesn't seem to include SVG. Thanks for your help!

Generate 2 A4 report pages to a A3 pdf

jeroenrottink — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 08:19:24 +0000

Hi TeamDM, A customer asked if he could get a A4 report generated to a A3 pdf where 2 A4 pages would form one A3 page in a pdf document. The report is currently setup as a A4 portrait report. He now generates a A4 pdf and afterwards he uses a pdf editor to merge and arrange every 2 pages together to form an A3 (landscape) report. He would like to get rid of that extra step and get the A3 report right from ReportBuilder.

Creating SanKey Diagram reports

reportbuilder2023 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:08:56 +0000

Been using Report builder since its release virtually, love the product but a few clients are asking me to incorporate Sankey diagrams into the report, is this on the report builder Radar i wonder? .... As Per SankeyMatic.com

EMF not visible when exporting to PDF.

aeverett — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:16:06 +0000

Hello, I'm running into an issue where I'm loading an EMF File into a ppImage, but when exporting the report containing the image, it is not visible. I can see it in the preview and when I print to PDF, but when using Report Builder's export to PDF, I can't see it. What could be causing this? I've tested with DirectDraw enabled and disabled, no change. MaintainAspectRatio and Stretch are both True. RB 22.04 in Delphi 12.2. Thank you!

SVG with transparent background not showing correctly when printing to Adobe PDF

aeverett — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:06:37 +0000

Hi, I'm trying to print a report containing an SVG loaded into a ppImage, but when choosing Adobe PDF as the printer, the SVG doesn't show correctly. The SVG has a transparent background but in the PDF it has a black background. I've tested using Microsoft Print to PDF and ReportBuilder's export option, and they work well; no black background. Any ideas why this is happening and if I'm able to fix it through Report Builder? Thank you! RBuilder 22.04 in Delphi 12.2.

Detect File is PDF or PDFA

ceider — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:43:37 +0000

Hi, is there a way to detect whether a file loaded into a TppPDFComponent is PDF or PDFA ? TIA Carsten

Settings for printing into PDFA(1..3)

ceider — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:48:34 +0000

Hi, are there any settings like compression or so on printing a document into a PDFA file? I assume not, as riles for PDFA are quite strict. My use case is to transform PDF into PDF/A abusing Reportbuilder. I have got a document of about 240 pages / 10MB which explodes into 240MB / 60MB as PDF2A on using reportbuilder. As far as i examined the result, any page within the original is converted into an image So I hope there might be an option to improve compression. Tia Carsten

Infinite loop printing report using RBuilder 23.01, perfecty working using RBuilder 22.05

omar_infocer — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:11:02 +0000

Hi, we are exeperiencing an issue very similar to this: https://digital-metaphors.com/FORUMS/discussion/22018/infinite-loop-with-report-builder-23-and-embarcadero-athens-in-case-of-subreport We are using Delphi 12.03 and RBuilder 23.01 build 152 and if subreport has many records it cannot be printed..and executable grows and grows like it's happening an infinite loop. In mentioned discussion you talked about a patch. Is there the possibility to get this patch ? I thank you in advance

rbRegBds.dcr is missing

ccy — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:04:50 +0000

I am using 23.02 of RAD Studio 13 release. Unit RBuilder.Reg.pas include a resource file rdRegBds.dcr but this file is missing in RBuilder setup installer:


unit RBuilder.Reg;

interface

{$I ppIfDef.pas}


procedure Register;

implementation

{$R rbRegBds.dcr}
...

High Resolution EMF Files losing text clarity when loading into Report Builder.

aeverett — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:16:15 +0000

In several of our reports, we load a company logo into the report in a ppImage. We're encountering an issue where we're trying to load a high resolution EMF file (23000 x 7000), but the text in the file is so down sampled that it appears to be cut off or missing. Is there a way to handle this down sampling? We're using RBuilder 22.04 in Delphi 12.2. Thank you!

Embedded EMF has low quality

amoroder — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 07:52:01 +0000

Hello, in the header of our reports I have to embed the company logo. It is a graphic with the name. I have it as EMF file. In inkscape the text is perfect, but when I embed it in Reportbuilder the quality is poor. Does the reportwritere convert the EMF into a JPEG? Regards Andreas

Convert PDF 2 PDF/A

ceider — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Hi, is there a way to convert a PDF to a PDF/A using reportbuilder, especially in 18.0? From my point of view this should not be possible out of the box, but there might be a hidden way to do it. Tia Carsten

Printing TRichView with ReportBuilder

GoranB — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:28:29 +0000

Hi, In our main software we use ReportBuilder for all reports and we want to stay with it. However things become complicated using TRichView component. Customers are satisfied with its capabilities and in the part of our software where they type medical information they want to have editor similar to MS Word. The problem is that TRichView component can use headers and footers but they can't be printed out with ReportBuilder. I tried in 22.05 and 23.01 but no success. I opened the discussion on their forum but no answer was posted in last 5-6 weeks. I really want to use ReportBuilder printing. We use Delphi 10.4 Sydney, TRichView 23.2, TScaleRichView 12.4.1. Any help is much appreciated. Best regards, Goran

PDF in greyscale

Reiter_Software — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:27:21 +0000

Is it possible to create a PDF in greyscale or black/white?

DBRichText in TableGrid text missing

DIKonsult — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:29:38 +0000

Hi, I have a report where I put a TableGrid with two rows and six columns on the detail part of the report. First row is set as Header and second row as Detail. In the second row cells I put both DBtext and DBRichText objekts. Both the row and the DBRichText object has the Stretch property set to true. My problem is when one of the DBRichText needs more than two pages in hight, whats happening here is that the second page of the three needed is blank in the detail and the text is missing. Where is my mistake here? Regards Dag

Report Builder hangs when setting Detail visible to false

CharlesMartel — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:14:10 +0000

We have a report builder script that used to set the Detail.Visible to false if a condition was met. This now seems to cause report builder to hang indefinitely. There seems to be nothing else needed to cause this problem. Is this a bug? Using Report Builder 23. Here the block in the calc of the Report > Detail: procedure DetailBeforePrint; begin Detail.Visible := false; // setting to false causes hang end;

Error when build ReportBuilder in RAD Studio 12.3 Win64 platform

ccy — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:58:13 +0000

With the latest RAD Studio 12.3 release, I try to build ReportBuilder on Win64 platform and encounter this error:

Embarcadero Delphi for Win64 compiler version 36.0
Copyright (c) 1983,2025 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
ppPDFXRef.pas(25) Fatal: F2048 Bad unit format: 'ppPDFActionManager.dcu' - Expected version: 36.0, Windows Unicode(x64) Found version: 36.0, Windows Unicode(x86)

TppDBMemo Maxheight ?

wurdak — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:57:03 +0000

I need the following feature for printing a TppDBMemo. There should be a setting for a stretched memo that limits the stretching to a maximum height. I would call the property MaxHeight, similar to MinHeight. Is that possible? best regards Oliver

Copy To Clipboard from Preview, undeclared identifier

timrradical — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:31:56 +0000

Hi there, I have been trying to work out a way of allowing a user to click an element (DBText) of a viewed report and sending the FieldValue to their System Clipboard. This is because they cannot drag + select text, then Right-click to copy or do Ctrl+C, and there are some complex bits of information that they would benefit from copying straight from the report preview instead of having to export it and copy from the exported file. I have seen that a solution has been suggested in the past for this by using OnDrawCommandClick and TClipBoard. Both here: ability to copy value from a preview to clipboard and here: Selecting Text in Preview I've tried to implement this in the OnDrawCommandClick event, but whenever I try to use TClipBoard, ClipBoard, or ClipBrd (all classes I have seen mentioned in solutions from Delphi forums) I get an error saying Undeclared identifier: 'TClipBoard' (or ClipBoard/ClipBrd) I assume there is something I am missing. How can I get my report in the Report Builder to recognise TClipBoard to use? procedure MyTextOnDrawCommandClick(aDrawCommand: TObject); begin TClipBoard.astext := MyText.FieldValue end; Error: MyTextOnDrawCommandClick, Line 3: Undeclared identifier: 'TClipBoard'. I am using Report Builder version 21.02.286

PageStyle doesn't show on first page

tvhm — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:48:59 +0000

Hello, I have 2 rtm report in reportbuilder. I add a pagelayer / pagestyle and put some backgrounds images on. In one rtm it always shows the pagestyle in the background In the other one, it only shows if the reports has at least 2 pages. In both reports I set - Start page 0 - End page 0 - Single page 5 - Pagelist is empty - PageSetting is psAll - UseSpaceSpace is on - ValidPages is empty What else can be the reason?