QtRPT Designer

With the aid of QtRPT Designer you can create, design and save multipurpose reports with the XML format. This is an approachable program that doesn't require installation and comes bundled with standard and advanced settings alike, in order to satisfy the preferences of all user levels.

Since this is a portable package, you can save the app files in any directory on the disk and just click the executable to launch QtRPT Designer. Another possibility is to make a copy and keep it stored on a USB flash drive, in order to directly run it on any computer with minimum effort. More importantly, it doesn't modify the Windows registry configuration.

The interface looks pretty professional, especially when keeping in ming that QtRPT Designer is freeware. It consists of a large window with a clear-cut structure, which includes panes for the report design, a tree view for the report elements, and object properties.

Several examples are shipped with the package to give you a better idea of how the application works. These include reports with invoice (data from grid), conditions (printable and highlighting fields), mathematics and aggregate functions, drawings, barcode generators, RichText fields, and so on.

It's possible to insert report titles, page, master or data grouping headers, master data or footer, data grouping footer, page footer, report summary, simple text fields, Rich Text, images, barcodes, diagrams, and drawings (e.g. simple line, line with anchor at the end, triangle, rectangle).

All objects can be easily selected from the report tree view, and their properties can be edited. For instance, when it comes to text fields, you can change the field name, height and width, along with the left and top margin, enable or disable printing and automatic height adjustment, set the horizontal and vertical alignment, customize the background and border colors, change basic font attributes, add frames and set the frame width, as well as wrap text.

QtRPT Designer lets you undo and redo your actions, put together multiple pages within the same report, configure page settings regarding the size, orientation and margins, pick the preferred measurement unit, and switch to another UI language. Once the project is done, you can save the report as an XML file and prepare for printing or import it later for further modifications.

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the application didn't freeze, crash or display error messages. Its impact on the overall performance of the PC was minimal, as it needed low CPU and RAM to work properly.

To wrap it up, QtRPT Designer comes loaded with intuitive and advanced options and configuration settings to help you design and save various types of reports. Plus, it's free to use.