mORMot Open Source

Sample code

In fact, you have at least three ways of generating pdfs using the library:

    Directly call of a TPdfCanvas as published by a TPdfDocument instance - this is the most direct but also more difficult way of rendering;
    Use regular VCL TCanvas methods thanks to TMetaFile support - see TPdfDocumentGDI.VCLCanvas property and the TPdfCanvas.RenderMetaFile method - this is very easy if you want to use "regular" TCanvas methods to draw the page content, especially if you have some existing printing code;
    Use TGDIPages of the supplied mORMotReport.pas unit (extracted from our mORMot ORM/SOA framework) to easily create the content from code, with some report-oriented methods (including complex rtf with TGDIPages.AppendRichEdit) - for basic reporting features, it is pretty much the solution.

The 2nd and 3rd ways are preferred, for most applications.