ActiveReports Developer provides two independent ways to export a report to different formats:
- Rendering Extensions. You can use the Render method in Rendering Extensions of the PageDocument class to render a page report to Image, Html, Pdf, Xml and Word formats.
- Export Filters. You can use the Export method of the corresponding ExportFilter class to export a section report and a page report.
The following table illustrates the different export formats for section and page reports.
| Export formats | Section report | Page report |
|---|---|---|
| Html: Export reports to HTML, DHTML, or MHT formats, all of which open in a Web browser. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pdf: Export reports to PDF, a portable document format that opens in the Adobe Reader. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rtf: Export reports to RTF, RichText Format that opens in Microsoft Word, and is native to WordPad. | ✓ | ✘ |
| Doc: Export reports to Word, a format that opens in Microsoft Word. | ✘ | ✓ |
| Text: Export reports to TXT, plain text format that opens in Notepad or any text editor. Export reports to CSV, comma separated values, a format that you can open in Microsoft Excel. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image: Export reports to BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, or PNG image formats. | ✘ | ✓ |
| Tiff: Export reports to TIFF image format for optical archiving and faxing. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Excel: Export reports to formats that open in Microsoft Excel, XLS or XLSX (Excel 2007). | ✓ | ✓ |
| Xml: Export reports to XML, a format that opens in a Web browser or delivers data to other applications. | ✘ | ✓ |
When exporting a report to PDF with the PDF Export or the PDF rendering extension, you can use the following function.