WebFOCUS Online Help > ReportCaster Development and Administration > ReportCaster Formats for Scheduled Output > PDF

Format: PDF (.pdf)

Description: Appearance of the scheduled output is preserved in an electronic document when printed using Adobe Acrobat. Retains all relevant StyleSheet formatting.

Suggested Uses: E-mail, Library

Considerations: Does not support hyperlinks in e-mail attachments. Recipient must have an Adobe Acrobat application to view.

The z/OS USS (UNIX System Services) platform requires the Web server configuration file to have the MIME setting for PDF set to binary in mime.wfs.

Bursting is supported.

When ReportCaster distributes PDF reports created with a TABLE request containing BY HIGHEST primarysortfield syntax, the report contains page breaks on each primary sort field value.

When distributing a PDF report to a Managed Reporting Repository on z/OS, the PDF report cannot be viewed in Managed Reporting. As a workaround, save the PDF file to your local machine and then view the PDF using Adobe Acrobat. This limitation is due to z/OS being an EBCDIC-based platform and PDF being an ASCII-based format.

The PDF Drill Through feature is supported.