ActiveReports provides custom components for several formats, including PDF, HTML, RTF, Excel, TIFF and plain text. For information on using these export filters, see the Exporting Output or Custom Web Exporting walkthrough. Please note the following limitations in use for each ActiveReports export filter.
HTML Legacy
Not 100% WYSIWYGDoes not support:
- Line control
- Control borders
- Shapes (other than filled rectangles)
- Overlapping controls.
HTML DHTML
Not 100% WYSIWYGDoes not support:
- Diagonal line control
- Control borders
- Shapes (other than filled rectangles)
Excel
Not 100% WYSIWYGDoes not support:
- Line control
- Shapes (other than filled rectangles)
- Overlapping controls
- Borders on controls with angled text
Tiff
Image of page, so it's 100% WYSIWYG.RTF
Not WYSIWYGDoes not support:
- Full justification (unless you set the EnableShapes* property to True)
- Line control (unless you set the EnableShapes* property to True)
- Section Backcolors
- Control Backcolors (unless you set the EnableShapes* property to True)
- Shapes (unless you set the EnableShapes* property to True)
- Overlapping controls
- Control borders (unless you set the EnableShapes* property to True)
- Angled text
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If you set the EnableShapes property to True, the resulting RTF file displays correctly only in Web Layout View in Microsoft Word. |
Text
Not WYSIWYG- Supports plain text only.
- Supports encoding for foreign language support.