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8 Running a Report

This section describes how to view, save, and print the output of a report.

8.1 Displaying a Report Onscreen

To view a report, select Run Report from the Report menu. A new Report View window opens, displaying the first page of the report. Scroll down to see more pages.

Currently, the report displays as one continuous ``roll'' of pages. In the future, this window will display one page at a time and include buttons and key strokes for navigating through the report.

From the Report Window, you can print a report or save the results to a file.

8.2 Saving a Report's Output

From the Report View window, you may print the report or save its output in any of the formats allowed by the layout engines. See Section 10, Layout Engines, for a list of available layout engines and their file formats.

Alternately, you can run DataVision from the command line, specifying a layout engine and an optional output file name. See Section 3.2, Running DataVision from the Command Line for a command synopsis.

8.3 Printing a Report's Output

Reports can be printed from within the Report View window or by printing an output file generated by one of the layout engines.

8.3.1 Printing from DataVision

From the Report View window, use Print from the File menu to send the report to a printer.

Two options: from Swing layout engine and from command line.

8.3.2 Printing a Report Output File

Printing or viewing an exported output file from the command line is system dependent. For example, you can open an HTML file with your favorite Web browser and print it there or open a comma-delimited .csv file with your spreadsheet program and print that.

The LaTeX layout engine produces a LATEX2e.tex file. This file is in turn used to produce a device independent .dvi file, most likely by running the command latex. There are many tools available to translate either the .tex or the .dvi file into almost any format you may wish: text, HTML, PostScript, PDF, and more.


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Jim Menard 2002-04-18