Chapter 9. A Leading Exporter: Exporting Reports to Other Rendering Formats
Up to this point, we have been viewing reports in the preview format. The preview format works great during report development for checking out your report layout and interactivity. However, when you want to present your report to users who do not have the Report Designer, you need something other than the preview format to do the job.
In place of the preview format, Reporting Services lets you export your report to other rendering formats so it can be presented to a user. These presentation rendering formats retain the layout, fonts, colors, and graphics of the report. The presentation rendering formats are as follows:
TIFF Image
Adobe PDF
MHTML (web archive)
Excel
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