Rave Reports Visual Designer

Printing Preferences

Under the "Printing" tab, you will see that you can change the preview and destination options. Most of these control the behavior of your report output. The preview options are easy to use and can be changed quickly to see their exact impact on the preview screen.

However, the real purpose of the Monochrome option might not be so obvious. The real purpose of the Monochrome setting is to reduce the size of file created by Rave during the report generation mode. If your display setting is at one of the higher color settings, like "True Color", then the output file can be quite large. The time to produce and the size of the output file will be reduced by selecting Monochrome as an output setting. This is especially true if the system has low amounts of RAM (4-8 MB) and the display setting is at one of the higher color settings, like "True Color".

In Output Options area of Printing Preferences, the Show Setup Dialog indicates whether the Output Options dialog (as shown here) is displayed when executing a report. It is sometimes convenient to disable the Output Options dialog, especially if it is during design and testing time. The drawback to this is that some of the parameters that are contained in the dialog box would have to be set before hiding this dialog. Also, any changes desired would have to be done either by re-activating the dialog box or specifying the changes in the Preferences dialog.

The default report print destination is determined by the settings under Print Destination in the Printing Preferences, and is reflected in the Output Options dialog box. Changing the value in the Print Destination area of the Printing Preferences will directly effect the default selection in the Output Options dialog box. There are two options that can be chosen: Preview and Printer. Selecting either one, by choosing the appropriate radio button, will make that option the default value and when the Output Options dialog appears the default value will be selected.

See Also:        Preferences  >>  Defaults, Designer, Environment, Shortcuts