Introduction > VPE In Short (all Editions)

•Using special, optimized algorithms (since 1993 under development), VPE is really fast!

•Unlimited number of pages per document and unlimited number of simultaneously open documents (only limited by available memory / harddisk space)

•VPE allows true Multi-Tier application development: it is database independent, since your applications supply and layout the data.

•Use colors, lines, frames, boxes, ellipses, bitmaps, and - of course - text.

•All drawing coordinates can be specified in centimeter or inch units, with an internal precision of 0.0001 mm.

•Compute the width and height of text and image objects depending on their content.

•Create for example 100 pages and move to any other page to draw additional objects.

•Specify the page dimensions and orientation (portrait or landscape) for each page separately.

•BMP import

•High quality PDF export

Windows platform:

•Built-in, zoomable preview with true WYSIWYG vector-graphics. In fact, VPE renders all objects in a virtual high resolution and then transforms it to the specified device, be it the screen, a printer, a fax or whatsoever. This gives best possible WYSIWYG results.

•The preview can be shown - and the user can scroll through it - while you are still generating a document. Works with and without multi-threading!

•Direct printing and printer access. Enumerate all available printers, select a specific printer by code, and modify nearly all possible printer properties by code. Specify the printer's paper bin for each page separately.

•Don't worry about the printer, its resolution, or printing-offset (this is the part of the page the printer cannot print on). Your documents will look the same on every printer as much as it is technically possible.

•Send VPE- or PDF documents and other attachments by e-mail and fax easily through Extended- or Simple MAPI. A royalty-free document viewer for VPE document files is included.
NOTE: The Community Edition does only support Simple MAPI.

•The ActiveX offers full FTP- / HTTP-support to create server based reports. Therefore you can plug it into browsers on the intra- and internet and even reference image and RTF files with for example "ftp://ftp.my-server.com/image1.gif" in your source code (VB Script or Java(-script)). On the other hand, you can create a VPE Document file in your native programming language on the server (or transfer it there) and instruct the ActiveX in the browser to load and display a specific document file from the server in the intra- or internet. Moreover the images contained in the document may be linked to image files stored on the server.

•VPE's user interface (GUI) "speaks" eleven languages: VPE selects the right language for all tooltips and dialogs automatically - depending on the country setting in the control panel of the system VPE is currently running on. Supported languages are: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese. Optional you can select the language by code. In addition you can define all text of the GUI elements by code, so you can use any language.

•WMF and EMF (Metafiles and Enhanced Metafiles) import