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Report Rendering and Output Formats
Figure 5.3. IML Options
The IML render properties also allow you to choose which report parameters you wish to expose to
the user of the IML file. As described previously, there is no point exposing values passed back to
primitive datasources because they will have no effect. You should use the checkboxes to enable those
parameters which the user can utilise to vary the render output - those that are used by Report scripts
or Composites, for example.
LPT
Line Print Text is a text format which positions the text components of the report to approximate the
same results on a fixed-width display or line printer.
The LPT render properties consist of two values, Character width and Character height. The values
describe the size of a single character on the target device, hence how the layout of the template is
positioned. For example the character height indicates how many newline characters are needed to
descend the appropriate distance down the page and the character width then indicates how many
spaces are inserted to push the text to the correct position. For example, a line of text at 600,600 (twips)
would be at location (4,2) on a character grid with the default character size of (150,300) twips.
PCL
PCL is HP's Printer Control Language. Support for this rendering type in Elixir Repertoire 8.5.0 enables
you to render images into grayscale and colorful PCL files. There are 3 options for Sides as seen in
Figure 5.4, “PCL Wizard”. Two Sided Long Edge is usually used for portrait pages, while Two Sided
Short Edge is typically used for landscape pages.
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