Creating Complex Printouts

You are now ready to learn about some formatting tasks that might apply to more complex printouts. You have learned in other topics about the basic form definition and page definition elements. This topic describes how these elements are combined to create complete print jobs.

The advanced techniques that are covered in this topic are illustrated in the following examples:

Table 1. Form Definitions and Page Definition Tasks
Task	Example location
Combine field processing with an overlay.	Combining Field Processing and an Electronic Overlay
Suppress data.	Using Suppressions to Vary Data Presentation
Include fixed text.	Incorporating Fixed Text into a Page Definition
Combine two reports.	Combining Two Reports into One Printout

The examples in this topic build on a single sales application, showing different sales reports being formatted by form definitions and page definitions.