Introduction > Professional Edition

•Renders RTF (Rich Text Format) and imports RTF files.
VPE supports a subset of RTF (see “RTF - Rich Text Format” for details)

•Charts - VPE supports all basic types of charts using SmartChart technology

•2D Barcodes – Generates 2D barcodes of the types: PDF417, DataMatrix, QR Code, Maxicode and Aztec

•HTML Export – Exports VPE documents into the HTML file format

•Character Placement - You can specify a constant offset from one character to another for text objects (not RTF) in 0.0001 mm resolution. This is very good for filling in forms that have pre-printed columns for each letter.

•Object Visibility - Objects (like text, images, barcodes, etc.) can be set to printable only, i.e. they are not shown in the preview but they are printed. Vice versa objects can be set to viewable only, i.e. they are shown in the preview (for example as hint or comment) but they are not printed.

•Pages can be cleared (i.e. all objects of a page are deleted), pages can be removed and pages can be inserted between existing pages (lower editions can only add new pages at the end of a document).

Windows platform:

•UDO - Powerful User Defined Objects - This allows to print and preview any kind of drawing or object, including OLE/COM objects!

•Clickable Objects - Objects can be made clickable. If the user clicks onto such an object your application receives an event. This allows to implement drill-down reports or to show a separate dialog, with more detailed information about the clicked text or image.

•Export of single pages or parts of pages as:

•BMP

•WMF (Windows platform only)

•EMF (Windows platform only)

•JPEG (compression ratio can be set freely)

•PNG (ZIP compressed)

•TIFF 6.0 (Fax G3, Fax G4, LZW, Packbits, Deflate, JPEG, Multipage)

•GIF (Multipage)

•For all bitmap formats you can specify the color depth and the resolution (in DPI). Additionally dithering is possible.

•Scale-To-Gray Technology - a 300 or 600 DPI image scaled to a 96 DPI device (the screen) is looking bad due to its nature. The Scale-To-Gray Technology uses 2 different images, one for the screen (preview) and one for printing. The screen image is scaled down to 96 DPI while the loss of visual information is transformed to gray-values. This means perfect readability of such images on a 96 DPI device.

•PrintScale - The output to the printing device can be scaled