WYSIWYG Design Experience (Demo Pack)

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Actuate Release 11 delivers true WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) design experience to the BIRT Designer Professional. This enhancement greatly improves the productivity and report development efficiency of the BIRT developer and hence, brings about significant cost savings by lowering the development and maintenance costs.<br />
The BIRT developer does not need to modify his designs repeatedly so that the desired layout is achieved in all the various output formats. When the fixed layout preference is chosen, the layout of the BIRT output will be similar irrespective of the fact whether the output is viewed on the web or printed in the PDF format.<br />
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Furthermore, the layout of the output will be consistent with the layout that the BIRT developer sees in the design pane of the designer. The developer can visualize the layout of the output within the designer's layout pane and hence, can easily create the layout according to the needs of the consumers. This eliminates any iteration of complaints of layout inconsistencies and subsequent modifications between the users and the developers. Hence, the BIRT developer can deliver the appropriate layout the first time around.<br />
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Attached BIRT design ("MyCustomers.rptdesign")demonstrates consistent pagination between the HTML and PDF output formats. It displays the aggregate purchases made by customers grouped by country. Note that the page breaks occur at exactly the same points in the PDF and HTML formats. The BIRT developer had to simply choose the "Fixed" layout preference and this layout was achieved without requiring any customization or coding from the developer.<br />
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Sales Invoice report demonstrates the identical layouts in the PDF and HTML outputs in the "Fixed" layout scheme. This BIRT report displays the exact dimensions of the table columns as set in the table in the BIRT design. The BIRT developer can drag the columns vertically and horizontally to adjust the column heights and widths respectively. These changes are reflected in all the output formats, thus delivering a true WYSIWYG design experience to the BIRT developer.<br />
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Ashwini Verma