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If
you followed all tutorials from beginning you will
have seen how I created my example Catalogue shown
to the left. If you need to find out how it was
created go to
Cat2 and
Cat2b tutorials.
So
let's use the Catalogue I created to run this
tutorial on Printing a Main report. |
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Printing Main Reports occurs when one clicks the
Icon at the toolbar marked with a little
printer.... |
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Or
by using the droplist from the toolbar Menu
'Tools-Print Report'.
But
First, one Important aspect.
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The
Properties of the catalogue will have to be
changed to allow Printing of Reports. Check the
tutorial done by Tozé Piçarra, as he used my
catalogue example to do the properties tutorial (Cat3).
So I will assume you already know about the
Properties to be able to go on or else i suggest
you read through Tozé's tutorial first and then
come back to this tutorial.
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You
Know now that the settings in the Properties have
to be set for allowing Fields to appear in the
report or else you won't get a result/output
printout. |
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I
opened my example catalogue and as you know from
the
Cat2b tutorial, opening a catalogue whose
loading images were originally from a removable
media input device (highly advised and can be from
any device such as CD-Rom, Flash Memory, Stiffy,
etc) shows a placeholder in place of the images,
such as the left handside figure shows. This was
the case for me.
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I
loaded the CD with my images and clicked to
refresh the view of the catalogue and got the
images in sight.
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Obviously to Print anything you have to have
something to print, be it data such as details or
Images. We are concentrating with the Main report,
that prints data from the whole catalogue or part
of it. Printing of images is for the
Cat10 tutorial.
I Clicked on each image as I want to add/amend or
just confirm details for all, before printing (and
I've ascertained that properties are set
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I
want to print a report for the whole catalogue. So
I after I am done with all the images, I click the
catalogue name (This resets the focus on the whole
catalogue and not just on a category or a
Sub-Category or Image). Now I know that whatever
reporting is to be done will be pertaining to the
whole report - for now!
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I
click the Printer Icon
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The
Main report Opens with all the data/information
fields displayed and ready to print
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From
the Toolbar Icons of the report window one can use
the Zoom Lupe to drop a list of options for
viewing that report
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Including a customizable Option where one can
actually specify the range of co-ordinates for the
zooming factor from 25 to 400 that is not shown in
the droplist
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After one has done the configuration, one clicks
the Printer icon of the Report Window
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This
opens the Print dialog box window from your
default printer, where further tweaks can be
accessed such as which pages to print if more than
one page (not the case in the example hence the
grayed out options below the 'all' print range.
Clicking the Properties for the printer.....
NOTE - the Two extra 'tabs' that appear in the
screen graphic in the right are explained further
down where marked ***
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Brings out another screen that allows even more
tweaks. Note that I used it on an HP and Epson
Printer and these dialog boxes are different from
each other but an extensive array of options can
be accessed to further the look of the output
printouts.
Generally it catered for all my needs brilliantly.
Clicking the 'OK' button would commence printing.
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Explanation***
Here
is the explanation on how I got the extra field
'Tabs' on my example reports screen above.
Accessing the Printer Icon for the Main report
generates the Main report window whose 'tab'
appears to the right. If one Clicked the Report
printer Icon (the one inside the main report
window shown on the right), the main report would
be triggered to print as per explanation
above...... however..... |
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If
one hovers the cursor in an area of the main
report until the cursor turns to a zoom Lupe, and
then one Double Clicks there....
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One
can 'zoom' into that area and a further 'tab'
appears now in the report window. This means that
one can actually toggle between two reports now:
one is the main original report the other is the
zoomed area report.
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Or
again, zooming into a further area (now the
Sub-Category) one can get a third 'Tab' or report
possibility. In other words, this works always
relative to the way one creates the original
Catalogue. Categories and Sub-Categories are also
broken down within the Main Report.
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At
the bottom of the report page you can see the 'at
a glance' attributes for the reports depending on
which tab is open (see where the cursor is
positioned in the graphic to the left).
In this case there is one page open from a total
of one page (that's why the top arrow video like
symbols are not active as these are to move
forward or backwards within a report of multiple
pages) and the zoom factor is 100%.
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