Exporting - Overview

You can convert (export) a report document to a variety of popular formats, with no need for any third-party component to be installed on your machine.

The available formats are listed below:

You can customise export options of your report before creating a report document. After the document is created, you can customise the export options using the relevant Export Options property.

When exporting a report document to any of these formats, there are two different document generation principles:

  • the page-by-page document rendering formats are built upon the WYSIWYG principle - when exporting a report to such format, the report's page headers and footers, and top and bottom margins appear in each page, exactly as they appear in the report's Print Preview;
  • the table-like (or, grid-like) layout formats convert a report into a one-piece document, with the report's page headers and footers, and the top and bottom margins repeated only once - at the beginning and the end of the document.

The following table provides information on export formats architecture:

Format

Page-by-Page / Table-Like

PDF

page-by-page only

HTML

table-likeand page-by-page

Text

table-like only

CSV

table-like only

XLS

table-like and page-by-page

XLSX table-like and page-by-page

RTF

table-like and page-by-page

Image

table-like and page-by-page