BIRT Viewer Toolkit enables you to export report data, report content, and elements, such as charts, cross tabs, or summary tables, to various formats. You can export data to several flat file formats that can be read by Excel. In addition, BIRT Viewer Toolkit uses various emitters to enable you to export content, as well as elements to formats such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, and Adobe PostScript and PDF.

When you export content or elements to other formats, each emitter such as the PDF emitter or the Excel emitter provides several options that you can select to maintain the existing properties of the exported content, enabling users to easily perform additional analysis on the exported output. For example, when you export an element such as a cross tab to Excel, the Excel emitter supports exporting the content as a pivot table. This feature is specifically useful for sharing content with users without access to the BIRT Viewers, who can still analyze the output in Excel. BIRT Viewer Toolkit does not support exporting a report or report elements using Actuate’s commercial emitters. To use the commercial emitters you must purchase the license for Actuate BIRT Viewer or Actuate BIRT Interactive Viewer.