Perpetuum Technical Blog

Perpetuum Software Team congratulates everyone on the long-awaited spring!

Spring is time of changes and updates. Asking ourselves what we can do to facilitate and increase the effectiveness of the components work we concluded that it would be great if our clients had advanced PDF export abilities.

Now, we are glad to announce that we are about to finish the work over a new PDF export filter. In this post I won’t go deeply in describing advantages of exporting reports to PDF since there are a lot of articles on this theme in the Internet. I just want to summarize all our clients’ words about the necessity to use PDF export filter: “We need convenient and easy-to-use means to quickly deliver reports to our customers. And our customers, in their turn, should be able to work with these reports.”

So, all mentioned above lead us to the idea to re-write PDF export filter. And we did it…

A new PDF export filter includes advanced abilities of exporting documents to PDF.
• First of all, text view after export is improved. It doesn’t matter that the text size doesn’t fit the TextBox it will be correctly output on the page if you use the TextBox.StringTrimming property.
• Secondly, a new PDF export filter allows the optimization of the size of exported documents. PDF documents often have big size because of images. Now, you can set image quality to decrease the document size.
• Thirdly, we amplified PDF export filter functionality. We improved support for extended character set symbols and custom characters. This will considerably increase your abilities and options when exporting to PDF.
• Fourthly, we added support for encrypting. This will give you the opportunity to protect your documents from modifying and your work from redistributing.
• And finally, we made it possible to export bookmarks, text, and background fill. This will keep report quality and provide better visualization of the information.

A new PDF export filter will be included in a new release of Report Sharp-Shooter. It is expected in April, 2010. But we are still open for any your ideas and suggestions on how to improve PDF export features at our forum.

Day by day Perpetuum Software receives Success Stories from its clients. And today we’d like to let you get acquainted with the Story of Herrenknecht AG, a technology and market leader in mechanized tunneling. One of its main challenges is navigating the machines with a weight of up to several 1,000 tons precise to the millimeter over the distance of kilometers. That’s why the software system which they looked for had to meet the highest standards.

Herrenknecht AG existing system consisted of two independent modules: data acquisition software (C++ development tool like Borland C++ etc.) and data visualization software (Visual development tool like Intouch by Wonderware etc.) In connection with this they needed a complete solution which combined both data acquisition and visualization.

Herrenknecht AG was lucky to meet its defined targets by the .Net ModelKit Suite, including powerful reporting tool to address their reporting demands, flexible and completely customizable gauge and charting components. Since those components are completely compatible with each other Herrenknecht AG didn’t have to search for any other software for their project.

To be sure that data acquisition and visualization modules work in tandem the company ordered the complete solution by Perpetuum Software custom development services via its valued partner Enterra. Initial development started in time and didn’t take much time to define project specification. As a result Herrenknecht AG got stable and reliable monitoring system and excellent customer service.
This blog post is written on the basis of the words of Winfried Blakowski, Perpetuum’s business friend from Herrenknecht AG. If you’d like to know more details you can look through the full text of Herrenknecht AG Success Story.