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To print to a file |
  
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To print to a file |
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| 1. | If the Report Designer isn't already visible, choose Report Designer from the Report menu in the main window. |
| 2. | In the 'Report Designer' window, choose Open from the File menu, and open the desired report. |
| 3. | Choose Print to File from the File menu. You see the 'Print to File' window. |
| 4. | Select the type of file you want to generate: Adobe Acrobat Archive - a special file format that lets you store report output so that it can be previewed and printed later, without re-accessing the data from which the report was generated. While archiving is very useful for maintaining historical records, it can also be used as a method of report distribution. A separate freeware application to read these archive files is available for download from our web site. Feel free to give this application to friends or colleagues, who can then preview and print your archived reports. Microsoft Excel HTML JPEG Lotus 1-2-3 Quattro Pro Rich Text Format - most word processor applications can open rtf files. |
| 5. | Specify file name or folder. If you select the JPEG or HTML format, each page is generated as a separate file. After printing there will be a series of RPTxxxx.HTM files (RTP0001.HTM, RPT0002.HTM and so on) or IMGxxxx.JPG files (IMG0001.JPG, IMG0002.JPG and so on) in the destination folder. |
| 6. | Click the Print button to send the report to the specified file or folder. |
| 7. | To view the generated file, choose View File from the File menu. |
If you just want to check the report layout, hold down Ctrl while you choose the print command, and BookCAT will only print the first page of the report to the file.