About the report unit of measurement About the report dimensions

Advanced Concepts 2-3 For an example of using section-level distribution, see Chapter 37, Bursting and Distributing a Report . This chapter covers defining distribution of a single section to multiple destinations, using the Repeat On property and a sample distribution XML file. For information about advanced section-level distribution and creating your own distribution XML file, see the chapter Creating Advanced Distributions in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services manual. Examples Example 1 You can use sectioning and distribution to publish your report output in HTML, and also send a PostScript version to the printer. Example 2 You can send an executive summary of the report to senior management, and also e-mail detailed breakdowns to individual managers. In this example, a single report with two report sections needs to be created: a portrait-sized summary section and a landscape-sized detail section. Use the Repeat On property to associate the detail section with a data model group that lists the managers and then alter the destination on each instance of the data model group to send the output to the appropriate managers. See also Section 2.8.3, About report distribution Section 4.10.1, Displaying a section layout view Section 4.10.2, Creating a default layout for a section

2.1.3 About the report unit of measurement

A report can be defined using inches, centimeters, or points. The unit of measurement is independent of the device on which you build the report. As a result, you can design reports that will run on any platform on which Reports Builder runs. You can change a reports unit of measurement in these ways: ■ Setting the Unit of Measurement property. ■ Converting the report using rwconverter, specifying a different unit of measurement with the DUNIT keyword. ■ Opening the report in a different environment. For example, if you open a character-mode report, Reports Builder will change the reports unit of measurement to the bit-mapped environments default. If you then save the report, it will be saved with the new unit of measurement.

2.1.4 About the report dimensions

A report page can have any length and any width. Because printer pages may be smaller or larger than your paper reports page, the concept of physical and logical pages is used. A physical page is the size of a page that is output by your printer. A logical page is the size of one page of your report; one logical page may be made up of multiple physical pages. For each section header, main, trailer of a report: ■ you specify the dimensions of the physical page including the margin using the Width property and Height property. 2-4 Oracle Reports Users Guide to Building Reports ■ you specify the dimensions of the logical page report page in physical pages printer pages using the Horizontal Panels per Page property width and the Vertical Panels per Page property height. For example, a Horizontal Panels per Page size of 1 means that each logical page is one physical page wide, and a Vertical Panels per Page size of 2 means that each logical page is two physical pages in height. In this example, one logical page is made up of six physical pages. The logical page is three physical pages wide and two physical pages high. Consequently, Horizontal Panels per Page size is 3 and Vertical Panels per Page size is 2. If you wanted the logical page to be two physical pages wide and three physical pages high, you would specify a Horizontal Panels per Page size of 2 and a Vertical Panels per Page size of 3. Figure 2–1 Report dimensions

2.1.5 About fonts in reports