Enter the excellent Delphi SVG library written by Bruno Verhue. We’ve managed to agree on licensing terms that allowed us to make SVG rendering finally happen in List & Label. Usage is absolutely straightforward – if you add a new image to your report, SVG is available just like all the other formats:
Of course, you can also use the usual Drawing() designer function to just pass a path via formula.
As SVG features some rather complex filters, a 1:1 translation to EMF (which is our current base format) is not really feasible as the result wouldn’t be too appealing. Thus, the library generates a raster format in just the right size to make sure no unnecessary memory is used. Here’s an example what the result looks like:
Since most browsers already support the SVG format anyway, the SVG images are used directly 1:1 for HTML export without conversions
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The rendering of SVG images into the output is terrible. They look like really low quality jpg images, all blurry and pixelated. Can you offer any advice please?
Hi Steve, probably this is caused by the images getting smoothed by GDI+. Will check the question and come back to you. It should be switchable via a code option.