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Asked: 2026-05-24T08:59:51+00:00

I recently discovered that the PDFs exported by the Fast Report’s PDF export filter

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I recently discovered that the PDFs exported by the Fast Report’s PDF export filter aren’t displayed correctly in Mac OSX, iOS and Android devices.

Fast Report informed that their pdf implementation only support Windows and they can’t say when the new implementation that they are working on will be available.

I also tried to use the Gnostice export filter, but their demo installer didn’t work in Delphi XE and when I contacted them, they took 15 days to send me some attached dcus which also didn’t work. So I’m searching for another option.

If you know or use a PDF export filter which works with Fast Report, please let me know.

November 2015: Fast Report now have PDF/A support, with this option enabled the PDFs are fine on all platforms.

October 2014 – Fast Report 5 still seems to generate “Windows-only” PDF. A production-ready solution for this problem would be a benefit for cross-platform developers, given that Fast Report is the report generator bundled with Delphi.

Here is a fresh example generated with the Fast Report 5 demo, displayed with Adobe Reader 11 on Android 4.4:

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And on Windows:

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  1. Editorial Team

    The Gnostice support answered my e-mail which I reported that their trial installer didn’t work and send me some tips about which could be the problem and I was able to install it.

    The company I work for already bought me a license and I already replaced the Fast Report Export Filter, which was a task as simple as droping 2 components on the same Form as the frxReport Object and setting 2 or 3 properties.

    Also, to export the report programatically was also 2 lines of code and the information was easily found in their FAQ.

    In the end, based on the recomendations and after looking for other options just to find abandoned components which doesn’t have any updates for years, the Gnostice eDocEngine was the best solution.

    Just hope they make their installer a little more “Programmer Friendly” as if it had complained about the lack of Fast Report’s units in the search path I would’ve been able to at least have an idea of what was going on, instead of just getting an error and blaming them for having a trial installer which didn’t work.

    After replacing the filter and generating the PDF’s using the eDocEngine component, the PDFs now work the same in iOS, OSX and Android.

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