Character Mode Report

As i am not using laser printers tht's why we need all reports to be print in Character Mode.
How could we make report which will display in browser either in HTML / PDF ..but will print in character Mode.

when you create a report you need to decide whether you create a character mode report or a bitmap report. charactermode reports can not be rendered in html, they will always be rendered in ascii, however, even in ascii they can be displayed in the browser. they'll just like simple text in the browser.
bitmap reports on the other hand can be renderen in all the output formats reports supports (html, pdf, ...) they use high fidelity formatitting and therefore can not be run to charactermode reports.
you can picture bitmap reports and charactermode reports as two separate models combined in a single tool. you can not exchange one model for the other on a given report. you need to define whether a report is bitmap or charactermode via a property in the report.
thanks,
ph.

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