Exporting

ActiveReports 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.