Output as PDF (C#)

This code snippet uses the PDFRenderer class:

// code snippet starts

String designFile = "OrderReport.4rp";
String outputFilename = "SalesList.pdf";

FormatHandler handler = new FormatWriter(outputFilename);
PDFRenderer renderer = new PDFRenderer(handler);
renderer.JPEGquality = 0.5;
FourRpLayouter report = new FourRpLayouter(designFile, renderer);

//Run the report 
report.debugLevel = 9;

// some code omitted - view full source in demo

report.runFromSerializable(data);

// open the file
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(outputFilename);


// code snippet ends

In this example:

• A FormatHandler object named handler is defined using the FormatWriter class, taking the name of the output file as its input.
• An object named renderer is defined using the PDFRenderer class, taking handler as input.
• The JPEGquality property sets the compression quality of any included JPEG image to 0.5. A compression quality setting of 0.0 is interpreted as "high compression is important," while a setting of 1.0 is interpreted as "high image quality is important."
• FourRpLayouter report = new FourRpLayouter(designFile, renderer) creates the FourRpLayouter object for the specified report file that outputs a PDF file with the provided name.