Topics:

• Working With HTML Reports
• Working With Excel 2000 and Excel 97 Reports
• Working With PostScript and PDF Reports

Some advanced features of styled report output depend on whether the report is produced as HTML, PDF, PostScript, Excel 2000, or Excel 97 format. These features are described in this chapter.

A note about DHTML and HTML: DHTML is the absolute positioning version of HTML. As architected, format HTML generates output in a table-based format that leaves the exact positioning to the browser that is presenting the report. Format DHTML on the other hand is designed to render with the user-defined positioning in the same way as PDF. This means things should position on the page precisely as defined in the report procedure. PDF, DHTML, PPT, and PS are position-based. HTML and EXL2K are table or cell based. Therefore, DHTML output looks more like PDF rather than HTML.

For information about creating a StyleSheet, identifying and styling report components, and choosing a styled output format, see Styling Reports.

For advanced StyleSheet techniques and features that apply to styled output formats, see Advanced StyleSheet Features.