How to export a report or report element to PDF format

How to export a report or report element to PDF format

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Choose Export Content from the main menu. Export Content appears.

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On Export Content in Export Format, select PDF.

Export content appears, as shown in Figure 4-11.

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Select Page Settings. In Page Settings, complete the following steps:

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Select the page range, or specify the page numbers that you want to export.

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Select a layout for the exported file from the Page style menu.

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When a report contains languages that are read from left to right, such as English or French, and those that are read from right to left, such as Hebrew or Arabic, the text from both languages can be presented in the same report in the appropriate direction. This text is called bidirectional (BIDI) text. Select BIDI processing if you have a report in two or more such languages and need the data to be correctly presented in the PDF or PostScript output.

Figure 4-11

Selecting options to export a report

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Select Text wrapping to eliminate the need for horizontal scrolling in the exported report.

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Select Text hyphenation, if necessary.

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Select Font substitution to substitute any fonts that the application cannot interpret. Font substitution is the process of using one font in place of another when the original font is not available. The classification of fonts into families enables the process of font substitution. For example, it ensures that only a sans serif font replaces another sans serif font.

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Select Embedded font to embed a font currently being used, in the exported output.

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Enter a value in Chart DPI, specifying the resolution at which to display the chart, if the report you are exporting contains one or more charts. A higher DPI results in a larger file size. If you do not specify a DPI, the chart engine exports the image with a DPI value of 192.

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Select Render chart as vector graphics for existing charts in SVG format. This option for SVG images improves the resolution of the exported image, while maintaining a smaller file size.

Choose OK.

File Download appears, as shown in Figure 4-12. The default name assigned to the file and the file extension are visible. Choose Open or Save.

Figure 4-12

Exporting data

When you open the file, the report displays as a PDF document.

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