Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Cutting and Pasting from PDF output

Hi

We have some reports that are published as PDF files. The layout of the report is fairly free, using lists within lists.

Some of our users want to cut and paste some of the data. When they do so, the order and layout of the fields does not resemble the layout of the report. Any way around this.

Note that when the report is published as mhtml or excel, cutting and pasting from these formats is much better.

thanks

Peter

No, there is no way around that. If the user is going to reuse the figues in another format then it is best to stick to Excel output. If only specific users need this then you could set them up with an subscription that has Excel output, and leave everyone else with the PDF version.

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