In order to automate output use the reporting component TFORMer Runtime.
Embed TFORMer Runtime with a few steps into your systems, procedures, software applications, batch jobs or shell scripts.
TFORMer Runtime completes layouts of industry compliant forms, reports and barcode labels with data from your application and generates or prints the output on its own. The layouts to be used are created with TFORMer Designer. Print arbitrary labels or forms as part of your application. It doesn't matter whether you use your own layouts or the ready-to-use industry compliant forms shipped with TFORMer Designer (e.g. automotive labels, compliance labels, transport labels, shipping labels, ...).
Just 4 Steps
By integrating TFORMer Runtime, the complete output capabilities of TFORMer Designer are available to your application without restriction. Only a few steps are needed to print forms or labels with data supplied by your application:
Integrate TFORMer Runtime into your application
Choose the form or label layout to be printed
Supply the data
Start printing or exporting
For Simple as well as Complex Automation Tasks
The reporting component TFORMer Runtime is ideally suited for seamless integration into software applications or systems. The following application programming interfaces (APIs) are available:
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| Command Line (TFPrint) | Microsoft® Windows, Linux®, UNIX® | For embedding in batch jobs (*.BAT and *.CMD) and shell scripts (like *.sh for Linux®) |
| COM components | Microsoft® Windows | Used for scripting languages like Visual Basic® (*.VBS, VBScript), with VBA in Microsoft® Office applications, for browser applications (HTML + VBScript, HTML + JavaScript), used for server side ASP applications and for traditional software developers. |
| .NET 2.0 Assembly | Microsoft® Windows, Linux® with MONO | For .NET developers |
| DLL or Shared Library | Microsoft® Windows, Linux®, UNIX® | For C/C++ software developer, for PHP developer (server side) |
Cross Platform
Due to the cross platform availability of TFORMer Runtime, you are not bound to Microsoft® Windows. The output generated by TFORMer Runtime is identical regardless of the operating system. Linux®, UNIX® and of course Microsoft® Windows are supported!
Reporting Component API (DLL, COM Component and .NET 2.0 Class)
With the programming interfaces of TFORMer Runtime (available as DLL, COM component and .NET 2.0 interface), select layouts, set the content of variable data fields, import data from external data sources, configure print jobs and print or export forms. These APIs are used by software developers to integrate TFORMer Runtime into their own applications.