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At run time, users can easily print a report by clicking the Print report button in the toolbar:
If you're using Google Chrome as your browser, the Print preview screen will appear since that is how Chrome handles printing. If you're using another browser, then the Print dialog box will appear:
The Print dialog box includes the following options:
- Print Range : Choose whether you want All pages displayed, only Visible pages (default), or only certain Pages. The Subset drop-down box lets you choose to print All pages in range (default), Odd pages only, or Even pages only. The Reverse pages check box lets you choose to reverse the order pages are displayed if selected.
- Print : The Print button in the Print dialog box brings up the Print preview screen from which you can print the report.
- Print Tips : The Print Tips button displays tips for printing reports to help users print documents at run time.
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Cancel : The Cancel button closes the Print dialog box without printing the report.
Once you select the Print button, the Print preview screen will appear:
The Print preview screen includes the following options:
- Print : The Print button allows you to print your report.
- Cancel : The Cancel button closes the Print dialog box without printing the report.
- Destination : The printer the report will print to.
- Pages : The pages to print, select All or choose an individual page or page range.
- Copies : The number of copies to print and if pages should be two-sided. By default one copy is preinted and pages are only printed on one side.
- Layout : If pages should be printed in Portrait or Landscape mode.
- Advanced : Opens the Print dialog box to configure advanced printer options.
- Preview Pane m: The Preview pane to the right of the menu lets you preview the pages that will be printed.
Printing Tips
The following tips will help users when printing documents:
- Make sure that you have configured the default printer correctly.
- Make sure that preview area contains the correct content; if needed wait until preview area has updated successfully.
- Be aware that content inside the preview area of C1ReportViewer will be printed 'as is'.
Note on printing: while the Print button provides a convenient and quick way to print all or part of a document, it should be understood that it has significant limitations. Anything printed from within a Web browser is subject to the browser’s formatting, page headers and footers, and so on. Generally, you should save the document as a PDF file and print that instead. For more information on saving a report, please see the Saving a Report topic. PDF documents created by C1ReportViewer should be identical in appearance to the documents in the viewer - but should print much better as they may be printed avoiding limitations imposed by the Web browser.
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