You can preview books and snapshot books in PDF or HTML before printing. From the book table of contents, you can select individual reports within a book to preview as PDF or HTML or view the entire book with all of the reports in PDF.
You can also print an entire book or snapshot book or print individual reports in a book or a snapshot book. When you print a book, the data is retrieved for the reports in the book and the book is printed. When you print a snapshot book, the data has already been saved in the reports when you save the book as a snapshot book.
Before running a book, you can preview the user Point of View and make changes. This step allows users to verify that the members on the user POV are appropriate before running the report or book instead of after the output is displayed.
Features of a PDF File Generated From a Book
Support for PDF and plain text files. When referring to "external content" within books, you can now include Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF, and plain text files within books.
Cell document attachments (for example, Cell Text) that are extracted from a Financial Reporting report (Microsoft Office, PDF, and text files) are included in the PDF output
Any cell documents associated with an Financial Reporting report display as "sub-items" in the book's table of contents
PDF bookmarks are shown on the left part of Adobe Reader. With bookmarks, you can jump to any of the book's chapters.
A table of contents with linked items. When you click on an item in the table of contents, you are presented with the first page of that item
Consecutive page numbers. Financial Reporting reports, snapshots, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and plain text files show consecutive page numbers
You must select Consecutive Page Numbers in the book properties for consecutive page numbering to be in effect. You cannot implement consecutive page numbers for embedded PDF files.
Total page counts. Similar to consecutive page numbers, Financial Reporting reports, snapshots, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and plain text files show a consistent total page count. For example, suppose a report has three pages but the book's contents make 10 pages. If the <<PageCount()>> text function is used in the report, it will show 10 instead of three.
You can customize how plain text files are printed by modifying FR_TextTemplate.doc.