Exporting a report

The prepared report can be exported to one of the supported formats. At this moment, the following formats can be used:

  • PDF;
  • Excel 2007;
  • Word 2007;
  • PowerPoint 2007;
  • OpenOffice Calc / OpenOffice Writer;
  • RTF;
  • Excel XML (Excel 2003+);
  • HTML;
  • MHT;
  • Pictures (Bmp, Png, Jpeg, Gif, Tiff, Metafile);
  • SVG;
  • CSV;
  • DBF;
  • Json;
  • TXT;
  • ZPL;
  • PPML;
  • PostScript;
  • XPS;
  • LaTeX;
  • DXF;
  • XAML.

The export is performed by the export filter. To do this:

  • prepare a report using the Prepare method;
  • create an instance of export filter and set up its properties;
  • call the Export method of the Report object.

The following example exports a prepared report in the HTML format:

// prepare a report
report1.Prepare();
// create an instance of HTML export filter
FastReport.Export.Html.HTMLExport export = new FastReport.Export.Html.HTMLExport();
// show the export options dialog and do the export
if (export.ShowDialog())
  report1.Export(export, "result.html");

In this example, export settings are made using the dialog window.