Report Display Formats

You can choose from among several display formats for your report:

• Web format: HTML. For more information, see Using Web Display Format: HTML.
• Print formats: PDF (Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format) and PostScript (PS). For more information, see Using Print Display Formats: PDF, PS.
• Worksheet formats:Excel 2000/2003 HTML-based format, with variations for Excel 2000 PivotTable and Excel 2000 FORMULA, Excel 97 HTML-based format, and Excel binary format. For more information, see Saving Report Output in Excel XLSX Format.

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, PPTX, 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 which file formats are available for saving and reusing (as opposed to displaying) report data, see Saving and Reusing Your Report Output.

Note: For styled output formats, setting the LINES parameter to 999 or higher generates continuous forms. When continuous forms are specified, but the output format has a physical page size (as is the case with PDF output), the column titles repeat at the top of the physical page, without page numbers.

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.