Printing styles
The printing style parameters include the text formatting options defined for the report pages and the individual rows and columns.
Report formatting parameters
You set the report formatting parameters in the Report definitions (CS206000) window of the Analytical report manager. To define the printing style for a report, you can set the following report printing parameters.
- Margins
Specifies the margin size settings for the report page, which can be set in pixels, points, picas, centimetres, millimetres, or inches.
- Left
- Specifies the size of the left margin of the report page.
- Top
- Specifies the size of the top margin of the report page.
- Bottom
- Specifies the size of the bottom margin of the report page.
- Right
- Specifies the size of the right margin of the report page.
- Size
Determines the size of the report page, which can be set in pixels, points, picas, centimetres, millimetres, or inches.
- Width
- Specifies the report page width.
- Height
- Specifies the report page height.
- Style
- Sets the style parameters, including font formatting, background colour, and text align options, for the report. These parameters are the same as the settings specified for the row and column Style parameters used to define the printing style for the rows and columns.
Row formatting parameters
To set the formatting parameters for each report row, use the Row sets (CS206010) window. Row formatting lets you highlight some rows in the report. To define the row formatting, set the following row attributes.
- Height
- Specifies the row height (in pixels).
- Indent
- Specifies the row indentation (in pixels).
- Style
- Sets the style parameters, including font formatting, background colour, and text align options, for the row.
Column formatting parameters
You can set the text formatting parameters for each report column in the Column sets (CS206020) window. Column formatting is frequently used to highlight some columns in the report (for example, when the highlighted columns display totals calculated for some reporting periods, and they must have a notable formatting). To define the column formatting, set the following column attributes.
- Width
- Specifies the column width (in pixels).
- Extra space
- Specifies the indent defined for a column (in pixels).
- Style
- Sets the style parameters, including font formatting, background colour, and text align options for the column.
Style parameters
Style parameters are the text formatting parameters specified for the entire report or for individual row or column.
The text formatting parameters for a report, row, or column are specified in the Style group of the Report definitions (CS206000) window or in the Style dialog box, which you invoke from the Row sets (CS206010) or the Column sets (CS206020) window.
Use the Style dialog box to set the following formatting parameters.
- Text align
- The alignment for the text in the report lines.
- Colour
- The text colour.
- Back colour
- The background colour.
- Font
- The font name.
- Font size
- The font size.
- Font style
- The font style (the following options are available: Regular, Bold, Italic, Underline, or Strikeout).
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