TFORMer Product Suite

Introduction

Many thanks for evaluating TFORMer!

The TFORMer product family represents a lean but powerful output and reporting solution. Professional graphical layout features are combined with versatile output capabilities. The integrated bar-code generator, full-featured UNICODE support, direct PDF generation and the possibility for client as well as server side integration qualifies TFORMer as multi-purpose, multi-platform report generator.

• Users benefit from the graphical layout editor with instant output capabilities: TFORMer Designer offers outstanding layout and printing features for documents like reports, tables, lists, serial letters, industry forms, vouchers and barcode labels. Especially the ready-to-use industry labels (e.g. VDA-4902, Odette, Galia, AIAG, ...) save time.
• Software developers use TFORMer Runtime as a reporting tool for direct printing (including native ZEBRA^® support) and PDF-, PostScript^®-, HTML- and image output. Form layouts are designed graphically with TFORMer Designer, TFORMer Runtime is then used to provide dynamic data for these layouts and to generate the output. It represents the core printing functionality and it is available for all major operating systems.

Output Capabilities

Based on graphically designed FormLayouts TFORMer is able to generate output in the formats listed below. All output formats are supported natively by TFORMer.

• Direct printing to all printers on Microsoft^® Windows^®
• Built-in ZEBRA/ZPL-II support
• Built-In PostScript output
• Built-In PDF output
• Built-In HTML output
• Built-in Image output
• ASCII output

TFORMer Runtime

TFORMer Runtime is the name of the cross-platform output and reporting engine. It generates arbitrary labels or reports based on FormLayouts  designed with TFORMer Designer. TFORMer Runtime is available with multiple APIs (application programming interface). It can be embedded into your applications or used from within batch-jobs or shell scripts:

TFORMer Runtime is available as

• .NET Assembly
  The NET-API of TFORMer Runtime is described in this document. It provides a clear and easy-to-use programming interface and can be used with all .NET programming languages (.NET 2.0 or higher is required).
  


• COM Component
  The COM-API of TFORMer Runtime is described in a separate document. COM objects can be embedded into Microsoft^® Office documents and may be used by all common development environments (e.g. Microsoft^® Visual^® Basic^®, Microsoft^® Visual^® C++, ...). In addition COM components may be used for client-side scripting within HTML pages (only available for Internet Explorer).
  IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to security reasons the COM component of TFORMer Runtime is Site Locked (see the Security in the COM developer documentation below). Without adjusting allowed internet zones or internet domains TFORMer Runtime may not be scripted within web-pages! This applies only to Microsoft Internet Explorer!
  


• DLL
  This 32-bit Microsoft^® Windows^® DLL interface is offered by TFORMer60.dll. The DLL-API can be used by virtually all programming languages and development environments. The DLL interface is described in a separate document.
  


• Shared Library
  For Linux^® and UNIX^® the reporting engine is available as shared library. For tar-balls or RPMs please refer to http://www.tec-it.com.
  The API of this shared library is 100% compatible to the Windows-based DLL.
  


• Command Line Application (TFPrint)
  TFPrint offers a stand-alone, command line based printing and reporting application. All required parameters can be specified by command line parameters (e.g. FormLayout to be printed, output device, output type, DataSource, ...).
  TFPrint is available for all platforms (Microsoft^® Windows^®, Linux^® and UNIX^®). It can be used in batch-jobs, shell scripts and web-based scripting languages or it can be "spawned" from within your application as separate process. A detailed description is available in a separate manual.

Free Product Support

We would be glad to hear from you! Do not hesitate to send us questions, feature requests or general product feedback.

TEC-IT is available for support at any time. Please just contact support@tec-it.com.

Limitations of the Demo Version

The demo version of TFORMer Runtime replaces graphical elements within a form layout with a demo-text on a random base.

How to Order a License

In order to enable the full-featured version, you need a valid license key from TEC-IT.

A description of the available license-types as well as all necessary information for ordering can be found at http://www.tec-it.com/prices If you don't know the license type according to your application, please ask our sales team (sales@tec-it.com). For placing an online order check out http://www.tec-it.com/order/.

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