[fpc-pascal] fpPDF and support of Latin2 charset

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:48:25 +0000, Graeme Geldenhuys
<mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:

>On 22/03/2019 17:04, Martok wrote:
>> Especially for tiny teams, the decision of spending 6k€ or hiring a new
>> developer to maintain the toolchain is, sadly, a no-brainer.
>
>I developed fpGUI before I started working at that company. Same with
>tiOPF, not initially developed by me, but existed loooong before they
>used it. The company spent a ton of money chasing Borland's dream...
>Choosing Delphi 7, then the promise of cross platform future with CLX,
>so they purchased Kylix 3 for all developers. All that expense (products
>and coding time) just to find out that it will be killed off. They
>discovered Free Pascal and Lazarus with improved cross-platform support,
>but Lazarus was to buggy at the time and no possibility of per app
>theming (still not possible to this day - even though Delphi has it
>since XE2).
>
>Anyway, I proposed fpGUI and demoed it with a prototype application. It
>had rough edges because fpGUI was just a hobby of mine at the time. They
>saw potential and agreed to use it and I could spend _part_ of my time
>improving it for their [product] benefit. The company wins as they get
>the flexibility they needed and software that will not be abandoned, and
>the open source project wins as it gets some paid development and
>improvements with commercial backing and testing.
>
>fpGUI is not an isolated case. I was hired to implement fpPDF and
>fpReport among other things. The company benefited as they needed
>something that didn't yet exist (PDF and Reporting engine with no GUI
>dependencies, implemented in Object Pascal). In return the company
>released that code back to the Free Pascal project.
>
>There are 1000's of cases like this in all kinds of open source projects.
>

Graeme,
this is interesting.
The link you provided in your signature gets me to a place where
versions are displayed and the last one is 1.4.1 from 2015-09-02.
Is this a final version not in need of any new stuff?

And is it a development IDE or a plugin for Lazarus?
Or something else entirely?

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden