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Exporting to PostScript
This topic describes how you can export the result of a page or web report to a PostScript file.
- Open the report that you want to export.
- Select File > Export > To PostScript. Designer displays the Export to PostScript dialog box.
- Select the Browse button to specify the destination directory where to save the PostScript file and its file name. You can also type the location and file name manually in the Directory and File Name text boxes (make sure that the folder you specify does exist; otherwise, Designer displays an error message). If you do not type a name, Designer uses the report name as the PostScript file name by default.
- If you are exporting a page report, in the Select Report Tabs box, select the report tabs in the page report that you want to export. Designer exports the selected report tabs in the list order. You can make use of the Move Up
and Move Down
buttons to change the order of the report tabs. If you do not type the name, Designer uses the report name as PostScript file name by default. - Select No Margin if you want to remove the margins in the PostScript output, which you set at report design time.
- Select Run Linked Report if you want to generate the reports that you link with the report (not including the detail reports) in the PostScript output. If you are only interested in the primary report, leave this option unselected. Generating linked reports at the same time, especially when the linked reports contain a large amount of data, causes performance issue.
- Select OK to start exporting.
When you export a report to a PostScript file, some objects in the output may be located imprecisely. You can print your report with PDF in order to get the accurate printed result. Therefore, you are recommended to export report to PDF rather than to PostScript.