Stampa .NET engine is an utility designed to produce printing reports in .NET applications.
The basic idea is to create XML based templates that store information about page looks, and eventually to load these templates from within your program, fill them with data and print.
Stampa is complete system for creating reports in .NET. Printing engine is separated from designer application, it's standalone and easy to use. Printing engine is contained in assembly named Stampa.dll.
Stampa Designer is the other part of a Stampa system. It is a highly-sofisticated tool for generating XML template files on the fly. Using Stampa Designer you can easily create, edit and manipulate with your template files to suite your needs.
Beside XML files, with Stampa Designer you can export your reports in PDF and XSL-FO format. You may find it a very easy way to generate a number of parameterized PDF reports in short period. In some way, you may consider Stampa Designer as PDF files generator.
Here are some key features of "Stampa Reports System":
· Human-readable, easy to edit, XML file templates
· Visual editor for your report templates - Stampa Designer
· Multiple pages reports
· Creating parameterized reports
· Visual PDF file generation
· Visual XSL-FO file generation
· Dynamic (database) data display supported
· Charted reports
· Dimple embedding in third-party .NET applications
· Complete online help
Requirements:
· NET runtime 1.1 / 2.0
Limitations:
· 5 objects per section allowed
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Minor bug fixed - object browser behaviour with large number of sections - visual designer only. This is a minor fix only in designer. No changes were introduced in runtime library (Stampa.dll), it is the same as previous version. Only the assembly version has been changed for the reasons of number compatibility with designer.