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Bitmap reports [message #89637] Wed, 09 June 2004 04:27 Go to next message
smitadey
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Registered: June 2004
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hello
I wanted to know what is the difference between a Bitmap report and a Character report
Re: Bitmap reports [message #89650 is a reply to message #89637] Sat, 12 June 2004 12:45 Go to previous message
Ranjit
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Registered: November 1999
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Bitmapped reports support all kind of Colors, All Drawings, mutlimedia things. Where as Character reports supports only Ascii texts(normal/bold/italic),lines(vertical/horizontal..No diagnoal) only.

Each character cell holds only one character, resulting in each character occupying same amount of space in the output; hence, the output uses fixed fonts, as opposed to proportional fonts used in
bitmapped reports.

By default, Report offers Bitmapped report. Which is mostly used to glamorise report.

99% of reports are character reports and following are the most important things to be taken care of.

To start with a character report :-
In report properties,
Under the Character Mode node, Set Design in Character Units to Yes. and in Data Model->System Parameters->Mode, set Value property to Character.
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