Formatting the Report for PDF Output

Formatting the report for PDF output or for HTML output share many of the same formatting techniques. Any of the formatting techniques used to adjust the layout in an HTML page can be used to adjust the format of the PDF file. If you are using both HTML and PDF outputs, you must decide which format to optimize.

If you start with a simple report which shows a hyperlinked entity name and the full path of the same entity, you can make changes to the report and show how they are reflected in the PDF output.

Procedure

  1. Set the font of the full path variable to Bold.
  2. Set the width of the name variable to 300 px.
  3. Set the border to 1 1/2 pt and red.
  4. Run the report.

Results

The basic formatting techniques you use for HTML also apply to the PDF format.