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:
- Export to PDF
- Exporting to HTML
- Export to Text
- Export to CSV
- Export to XLS
- Export to XLSX
- Export to RTF
- Export to Image
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 |
| 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 |